Author: Lacouture, Jean
Title: Pierre Mendès France
Description: New York, Holmes & Meier, 1984. orig.boards. 22x16cm, 486 pp. Translated by George Holoch.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Schoolof the Republic; The Wind of Freedom; The Fire of Action; The Passion to be Right.... "In this comprehensive political biography, the distinguished French joutnalist Jean Lacouture traces the life and career of Mendès france from his birth in Paris in 1970 to his academic and political education in the 1920s, his service in Léon Blum's "front populaire" cabinet in 1938, and his action in the Underground and in the "groupe Lorraine" during World War II...Lacouture describes the era Mendès France helped to shape, his personality, and his place as a liberal and a Jew in the reactionary world of the civil administration. In so doing he illuminates the strengths and contradictions of present-day France" - Publisher's description.

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