Andrea Wulf

Non-Fiction Pick of the Week - The Sydney Morning Herald

“With the flair of a novelist, Andrea Wulf uses the high drama and adventurous spirits of her protagonists – including Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Fichte, Schelling and Alexander von Humboldt – to shed light on the philosophy that ignited this circle of radical thinkers. The result is a thrilling historical narrative” – Non–Fiction Pick of the Week, The Sydney Morning Herald

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Review New York Review of Books: "Magnificent Rebels"

“An engrossing chronicle of the early German Romantics … Wulf, who has a novelistic eye for the telling detail, provides a riveting account of how raptures gave way to ruptures” –  New York Review of Books

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Review New Yorker: Magnificent Rebels

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“Magnificent Rebels is a buoyant work of intellectual history … a fine and thorough book” – The New Yorker

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Review Irish Examiner: Magnificent Rebels

“Magnificent Rebels is one of those rare books that is truly an intellectual landmark” – Irish Examiner

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Podcast: World in Time about "Magnificent Rebels"

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Washington Post: Review "Magnificent Rebels"

“Andrea Wulf’s engaging and often profound new group biography … a thrilling picture… At its most ambitious, “Magnificent Rebels” concerns the relationships between philosophy and politics, thought and action … Despite the complex arguments developed by its main characters, the book vividly conveys the drama of ideas … There is plenty of erotic drama here too, since the rebellion Wulf describes was sexual as much as anything … “Magnificent Rebels” shows with great lucidity how the Romantic desire to liberate the self still shapes our sense of who we are — or who we might strive to be” – Washington Post

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Podcast: History Extra - Interview "Magnificent Rebels"

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Podcast: Little Atoms

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Podcast The Rest is History: Magnificent Rebels

The Rest is History chatted with me about "Magnificent Rebels".

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New York Times: Review Magnificent Rebels

And a fabulous review in the New York Times.

“Exuberant … vibrant … Magnificent Rebels paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics” – New York Times

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