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Otto von Bismarck enjoyed food, drink and tobacco as well as political power Otto von Bismarck became minister-president of Prussia in September 1862. His appointment was a desperate roll of the dice ...

Everything about Otto von Bismarck was off the scale: his rages, his disloyalty, his mendacity, his gargantuan appetite and his colossal chamber pots. So, too, was the political genius of the greatest ...