De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970 (Vol. 2) ebook

by Alan Sheridan,Jean Lacouture

Alan Sheridan Jean Lacouture Historical English

10. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970: Vol 2. Lacouture, Jean/ Sheridan, Alan (Translator). Published by W W Norton & Co Inc (1993)

The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the election of de Gaulle-the voice of Free France, the savior of the nation in war-as president of France. But the internal contradictions of the new constitution soon forced de Gaulle to resign, leaving France to a succession of short-lived and generally ineffective coalition governments. 10. Published by W W Norton & Co Inc (1993). ISBN 10: 0393310000 ISBN 13: 9780393310009.

Lacouture, Jean; Sheridan, Alan. Translation of: Charles de Gaulle, t. 2-3. "Abridged version. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970, France. Armée, Generals, Heads of state, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945.

The second volume of the biography of de Gaulle, who was declared the first President of the Fifth Republic and who helped to stabilize the country during the Algerian War.

ISBN13:9780002712897. Release Date:January 1993.

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Jean Lacouture, Alan Sheridan. The second part of a two-volume biography of Charles de Gaulle which provides a record of his life and an evaluation of his leadership and statesmanship from 1945-1970. The first volume follows his rise to power and closes with the liberation of Paris in 1944.

Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan read English at St. .He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and also wrote a biography of André Gide. Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Ruler, 1945-1970, 1991.

Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet. Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others .

―Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs The second volume of Jean Lacouture’s acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the election of de Gaulle―the voice of Free France, the savior of the nation in war―as president of France.

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This second volume of Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle closes the circle on one of the most remarkable political lives of the 20th century. The book opens with the aftermath of World War II and de Gaulle's election as France's president, continuing through his resignation and return to power. This second volume of Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle closes the circle on one of the most remarkable political lives of the 20th century.

II: The Ruler, 1945-1970. A synthesis of vast scholarship, the book is also riveting reading

II: The Ruler, 1945-1970. A synthesis of vast scholarship, the book is also riveting reading. Lacouture, France's best known political biographer, continues in this volume to set DeGaulle in the context of mostly adversarial conditions, beginning with his conflicts with the Anglo-Americans during the Liberation. As ever, DeGaulle merged his ego with the demands of France's honor, damaged by defeat and collaboration.

The author of this two volume study is a journalist, not a historian; yet given a time when the university is swamped with the plague of Cultural Marxists and Sixty-Eighters, maybe it takes a journalist to do the job. That said, the two volumes of this work are probably the best biography that we have so far, at least in English.

“A thorough, splendid account of the great political dramatist, the very conscious creator of his own legend. . . . Balanced, indispensable.” ―Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs

The second volume of Jean Lacouture’s acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the election of de Gaulle―the voice of Free France, the savior of the nation in war―as president of France. But the internal contradictions of the new constitution soon forced de Gaulle to resign, leaving France to a succession of short-lived and generally ineffective coalition governments. In 1958, with the outbreak of the bitter colonial war in Algeria, destiny beckoned again. De Gaulle offered himself as a mediator and in short order became president of the Council of Ministers, then president of the Firth Republic.