Memoirs of a nobody
the Missouri years of an Austrian radical, 1849-1866
by Heinrich Börnstein
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Radical editor, Republican Party operative, freethinking colleague of Karl Marx - Austrian Henry Boernstein was hardly a "nobody," but his is one of the nineteenth century's great unknown lives.
After leaving Paris following the ill-fated revolutions of 1848, Boernstein became a leader of the large German-speaking immigrant population in 1850s St. Louis. He edited the premier German-speaking newspaper in the region, the Anzeiger des Westens, and played a major role in shaping the complex political landscape of St. Louis before the Civil War.
A friend of such significant Missourians as Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Blair, Jr., and Nathaniel Lyon, he was also a novelist, playwright, director, and actor who eventually led the St. Louis Opera House. He also served as a colonel of volunteers with the Union forces in Missouri early in the war and participated in the Camp Jackson raid in 1861.
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Memoirs of a nobody: the Missouri years of an Austrian radical, 1849-1866
1997, Missouri Historical Society Press, Distributed by the Wayne State University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"... a translation and edition of roughly half of the two-volume autobiography of Heinrich Börnstein, known in America as Henry Boernstein ..."--Pref.
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