Degaulle To Mitterrand

Author : Jack Hayward
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814733561

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Degaulle to Mitterrand by Jack Hayward Pdf

It is generally agreed that the new-style presidency is the key institution of the French Fifth Republic in that it helps to ensure the stability and effectiveness of the political system—something that France has been seeking since the Revolution of 1789. Yet, paradoxically, no comprehensive study of the French presidential phenomenon exists. The accumulated experience of 1959-1991, extending over the terms of de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing, and Mitterrand, begs a comparative study of their institutional and personal roles in the political process. Among the subjects here considered are: the pre-1958 presidency and the ways in which practice has diverged from constitutional provisions; the president's relations with his staff; the prime minister and government; the political parties; parliament; and the role of the mass media. Finally, the president's special role in foreign and defense policy, as well as his personal projects, are examined. Contributing to the volume are: J. E. S. Hayward, Martin Harrison (University of Keele), Anne Stevens (University of Kent), Jolyon Howarth (University of Bath), Vincent Wright (Nuffield College, Oxford), Jean-Luc Parodi, and Howard Machin (London School of Economics).

Author : Philip Short
Publisher : Random House
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448191895

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Mitterrand by Philip Short Pdf

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen 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. During the war he was both the leader of a resistance movement and decorated for services to the collaborationist regime in Vichy. After flirting with the far Right, he entered parliament with the backing of conservatives and the Catholic Church before becoming the undisputed leader of the Left. As President he brought the French Communists into the government the better to destroy them. And all the while he managed to find time for an extraordinarily complicated private life. This is a human as much as a political biography, and a captivating portrait of a life that mirrored Mitterrand’s times.

Author : Martin Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : France
ISBN : 1850651337

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De Gaulle to Mitterrand by Martin Harrison Pdf

The new-style presidency is agreed to be the key institution of the French fifth Republic, in that it helps to ensure the stability and effectiveness of the political system - something that France has been seeking since the Revolution of 1789. Yet, paradoxically, no comprehensive study of the French presidential phenomenon exists. The accumulated experience of 1959-91, extending over the presidential terms of de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing and Mitterrand, permits a comparative study of their institutional and personal roles in the political process.

Author : Serge Berstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521252393

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The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969 by Serge Berstein Pdf

The Republic of De Gaulle offers a comprehensive account - the fullest yet available in English - of the eleven years that followed the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Serge Berstein analyses the new constitutional and political system that emerged under De Gaulle, and shows how France was able to disengage from the ruinous Algerian War. He then conducts a detailed analysis of the socio-economic changes wrought during this period, and discusses the aims of De Gaulle's highly individualistic foreign policy. In the final section Professor Berstein traces the decline of De Gaulle's ascendancy up to his eventual resignation in 1969. In conclusion the author assesses the contribution of a remarkable political leader to the not less remarkable changes that took place in France during his presidency. This volume, lucidly translated by Peter Morris, features all those student aids now associated with the series.

Author : Paul Godt
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B4967766

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Policy-making in France by Paul Godt Pdf

This book brings together French, British and American scholars to analyze the political, institutional, economic, cultural and international elements that have contributed to the creation and consolidation of the French Fifth Republic, created in 1958 by de Gaulle.

Author : W. Nester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137483942

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De Gaulle’s Legacy by W. Nester Pdf

This book explores the following: What is the art of power? What is the art of French power? How did Charles de Gaulle understand and assert power, establishing the Fifth Republic and breaking centuries of political instability? How well or poorly have his successors wielded the art of French power to define, defend, or enhance French interests?

Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845454272

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Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification by Frédéric Bozo Pdf

This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.

Author : Ronald Tiersky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742524736

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François Mitterrand by Ronald Tiersky Pdf

Tiersky examines the three major themes of Mitterrand's presidency-socialism, national reconciliation, and the reconstruction of Europe-and shows that on each count, Mitterrand left a decisive mark.

Author : Alain Duhamel
Publisher : LGF/Le Livre de Poche
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : France
ISBN : 2253064769

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De Gaulle-Mitterrand by Alain Duhamel Pdf

Author : Alistair Cole
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : France
ISBN : 9780415071598

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François Mitterrand by Alistair Cole Pdf

Up-to-date appraisal of the long-serving president's political leadership in the context of a broad overview of French politics and policy since 1945.

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904341446

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De Gaulle by Julian Jackson Pdf

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846143526

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A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson Pdf

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.

Author : Régis Debray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032988126

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Charles de Gaulle by Régis Debray Pdf

In this elegant and original book, Regis Debray argues that for two hundred years the defeats of the left have stemmed from its failure to understand what it likes to call the 'national question', while equally its successes have grown from an unacknowledged liaison with the 'unreal reality' of the nation. According to Debray, Charles DE Gaulle was no narrow nationalist. By grounding his actions in a generous philosophy of the nation he was able to wed boldness to insight: on 14 June 1940 he appointed himself leader of the free French, disregarding the overwhelming parliamentary and legal mandate according to Petain. This intuitive action was to be resoundingly vindicated in the resistance and liberation of France. This study of De Gaulle is offered as an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West. For Debray, De Gaulle is not only the last statesman in the classic mould, he is also the first to anticipate the politics of the twenty-first century. De Gaulle's aloofness from the media and disdain for the base arts of electioneering have an exemplary quality, Debray believes, reaffirming the vocation of political leadership as something other than adapting to popular preferences or allowing professional communicators and opinion pollsters to set every agenda.

Author : William Safran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317343370

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The French Polity by William Safran Pdf

Focusing on the interplay between individual and institutions, The French Polity is the most current and comprehensive text for introducing students to the changing and enduring characteristics of the French political scene. It combines historical perspective and contextual information on French society to clearly explain the evolution and health of this country, political institutions, process, and culture. Throughout, William Safran, a leading area studies expert, goes beyond description to offer original analyses of French politics.

Author : Eric Conan,Henry Rousso
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : France
ISBN : 0874517958

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Vichy by Eric Conan,Henry Rousso Pdf

A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.