"Bismarck, Otto von: Founder and chancellor of the German empire in 1871. Few statesmen have ever been so excessively commemorated and monumentalized as Bismarck was. Countless statues, streets and public buildings bear his name. Bismarck, North Dakota: A city in the northwest of the United States, named after the German politician. Cunning settlers renamed the city in the 1870s to attract wealthy investors with its flashy name.
Reinhartz provides us with a particularly European view of North Dakota's capital. His images are uncommon pictures of a common place." -the publisher.