Publisher's Synopsis
Author/historian King profiles an aristocrat who continues to grab the hearts of German (and other) romantics, as evidenced in the nearly 5,000 books, plays, poems, films, and dances about him and the 10,000 visitors daily to the castle at Neuschwanstein. He ascended the Bavarian throne at the age of 18 in 1863, and nurtured his twin passions of ar
