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Author : Denis MacShane
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book François Mitterrand, a Political Odyssey written by Denis MacShane and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Tiersky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742524736
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book François Mitterrand written by Ronald Tiersky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alistair Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317761502
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Francois Mitterrand written by Alistair Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francois Mitterrand is one of France's most famous twentieth-century politicians, yet interpretations of his values and leadership vary widely. Alistair Cole's in depth study starts with a chronological overview of Mitterrand's career, and proceeds with a policy-based assessment of Mitterrand's presidency. By evaluating Mitterrand's policies in relation to various key roles such as the party leader, the President, the dispenser of patronage, the European statesman and the World Leader, this book places his leadership in comparative perspective, and offers a new understanding of him as an individual political leader. This fully up dated paperback edition will be invaluable for students of contemporary European politics as well as those interested in the career of one of post-war Europe's leading statesmen.
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317740599
Total Pages : 2946 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The 20th Century Go-N written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 2946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Author : W. Nester
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483946
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book De Gaulle’s Legacy written by W. Nester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Arnold M. Ludwig
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143306
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book King of the Mountain written by Arnold M. Ludwig and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too." -- from the book King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The answer may seem obvious -- power, privilege, and perks -- but any adequate answer also needs to explain why so many rulers cling to power even when they are miserable, trust nobody, feel besieged, and face almost certain death. Ludwig's results suggest that leaders of nations tend to act remarkably like monkeys and apes in the way they come to power, govern, and rule. Profiling every ruler of a recognized country in the twentieth century -- over 1,900 people in all, Ludwig establishes how rulers came to power, how they lost power, the dangers they faced, and the odds of their being assassinated, committing suicide, or dying a natural death. Then, concentrating on a smaller sub-set of 377 rulers for whom more extensive personal information was available, he compares six different kinds of leaders, examining their characteristics, their childhoods, and their mental stability or instability to identify the main predictors of later political success. Ludwig's penetrating observations, though presented in a lighthearted and entertaining way, offer important insight into why humans have engaged in war throughout recorded history as well as suggesting how they might live together in peace.
Author : Philip Short
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099597896
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Mitterrand written by Philip Short and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most glamorous, complicated political figures. Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: FranCois 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 : Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821442562
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 written by Elizabeth Schmidt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.” Orchestrating the “No” vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Although Guinea’s stance vis-à-vis the 1958 constitution has been recognized as unique, until now the historical roots of this phenomenon have not been adequately explained. Clearly written and free of jargon, Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea argues that Guinea’s vote for independence was the culmination of a decade-long struggle between local militants and political leaders for control of the political agenda. Since 1950, when RDA representatives in the French parliament severed their ties to the French Communist Party, conservative elements had dominated the RDA. In Guinea, local cadres had opposed the break. Victimized by the administration and sidelined by their own leaders, they quietly rebuilt the party from the base. Leftist militants, their voices muted throughout most of the decade, gained preeminence in 1958, when trade unionists, students, the party’s women’s and youth wings, and other grassroots actors pushed the Guinean RDA to endorse a “No” vote. Thus, Guinea’s rejection of the proposed constitution in favor of immediate independence was not an isolated aberration. Rather, it was the outcome of years of political mobilization by activists who, despite Cold War repression, ultimately pushed the Guinean RDA to the left. The significance of this highly original book, based on previously unexamined archival records and oral interviews with grassroots activists, extends far beyond its primary subject. In illuminating the Guinean case, Elizabeth Schmidt helps us understand the dynamics of decolonization and its legacy for postindependence nation-building in many parts of the developing world. Examining Guinean history from the bottom up, Schmidt considers local politics within the larger context of the Cold War, making her book suitable for courses in African history and politics, diplomatic history, and Cold War history.
Author : W. Rand Smith
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822971895
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Left's Dirty Job written by W. Rand Smith and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Left's Dirty Job compares the experiences of recent socialist governments in France and Spain, examining how the governments of Francois Mitterrand (1981-1995) and Felipe Gonzalez (1982-1996) provide a key test of whether a leftist approach to industrial restructuring is possible. This study argues that, in fact, both governments's policies generally resembled those of other European governments in their emphasis on market-adapting measures that eliminated thousands of jobs while providing income support for displaced workers. Featuring extensive field work and interviews with over one hundred political, labor, and business leaders, this study is the first systematic comparison of these important socialist governments.
Author : Geoffrey Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576665
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Political Ecumenism written by Geoffrey Adams and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adams examines the contributions of such major Français libres as René Cassin, Pierre Mendès France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt. The opportunity for Gaullists to offer full membership to the fourth religious family, Algeria's Muslim majority, following the liberation of French North Africa is also considered. In an epilogue, Adams reflects on the impact of Free France's political ecumenism in the postwar era.
Author : John Gaffney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349197416
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The French Left and the Fifth Republic written by John Gaffney and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-02-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of presidentialism and the myths which underpin it. The study aims to illustrate the crucial role played by language in the political practice of representative democracy.
Author : Denis MacShane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780704334175
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (341 download)
Download or read book François Mitterrand written by Denis MacShane and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beschrijving van leven en politieke ontwikkeling van de socialistische Franse president (geb.1916)
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Methuen
ISBN 13 : 0413777707
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book In Sickness and In Power written by David Owen and published by Methuen. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sickness and In Power looks at illness in heads of government, business and military leaders between 1901 and 2007. It considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the decision-making of heads of government, engendering folly, in the sense of foolishness, stupidity or rashness. Owen is particularly interested in leaders who were not ill in the conventional sense, whose cognitive faculties functioned well, but who developed a 'hubristic syndrome' that powerfully affected their performance and their actions. As we learn here, they suffer a loss of capacity and become excessively self-confident and contemptuous of advice that runs counter to what they believe, or sometimes of any advice at all. Long fascinated with the inter-relationship between politics and medicine, David Owen uses his deep knowledge of both to look at sickness in political leaders. Owen expertly scrutinises such diverse political personalities as Sir Anthony Eden at the time of Suez in 1956; John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961; the last Shah of Iran; and President Mitterrand of France who suffered from prostate cancer. The author also devotes a chapter to the hubristic behaviour and relationship between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. The book ends by outlining some of the safeguards that society needs to address as a consequence of illness in heads of government. Revised and Updated Edition for 2016 including a new chapter entitled Hubris Syndrome in the Military.
Author : Douglas T. Stuart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134908493X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Politics and Security in the Southern Region of the Atlantic Alliance written by Douglas T. Stuart and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Derbyshire
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Politics in France written by Ian Derbyshire and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622885
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
Author : R. Utley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595642
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The French Defence Debate written by R. Utley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Defence Debate examines assertions of consensus and continuity in, and surrounding, France's defence since 1958, with primary reference to the political career of François Mitterrand. Mitterrand's influence over defence and security, before and after his election to the presidency, is often underestimated. Nonetheless his impact was substantial, if ultimately for his lack of concern to preserve consensus and his reluctance to instigate necessary changes in France's defence - despite the end of the Cold War, and the military deficiencies and limitations of national independence it exposed.
