Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
The Wanderer
By Amos Elon
The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
by Laird M. Easton
University of California Press, 497 pp., $35.00
Harry Clément Ulrich Kessler, known in the Weimar Republic as the 'Red Count,' was a rich German patron of the arts whose family lived in Paris and sent him at twelve from a bleak French school to St. George's, a fashionable English prep school (where he missed Winston Churchill by a term), and then to a Gymnasium in Hamburg where he spent some of the most wretched years of his early life. He was a strikingly beautiful boy.
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