Mitterand : a study in ambiguity
Short, Philip2014
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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his 14 years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which Britain and America find so perennially frustrating. He embodied the ambiguities and the contradictions of a nation whose modern identity is founded on a stubborn refusal to fit into the Anglo-American scheme of things. Yet he changed France more profoundly than any of his recent predecessors, arguably including even his great rival, Charles de Gaulle. This is a human as much as a political biography, and a captivating portrait of a life that mirrored Mitterrand's times.
Main title:
Mitterand : a study in ambiguity / Philip Short.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2014.
Collation:
xi, 692 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099597896 (pbk)
Dewey class:
944.083092944.083092B MIT
Local class:
B/MITT
Language:
English
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BRN:
1812698