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Title: De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy by Daniel J. Mahoney, Pierre Manent ISBN: 0765806894 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Summary: The best book on de Gaulle's thought there is
Comment: With this book, you will go a long way towards understanding the congenitally misunderstood figure of Charles de Gaulle. And he's well worth understanding. This book is not a biography and is not organized chronologically. Rather, each chapter delves into different aspects of his political philosophy -- what were his ideas and where did he get them from?
Here is a sampling of some of the themes explored in this book: How de Gaulle interpreted French history, with a discreet preference for the Old Regime and ambivalence towards Napoleon, whose grandeur led him to contempt for moral and physical limits. An analysis of his early writings where he gives a self-portrait describing the "man of character" who is "made for great deeds." His deep moral sense of Christianity and democracy combined with his "egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning." How de Gaulle came to his 1940 decision that resistance was the only legitimate course of action. Why he saw the "constitutional correction" of 1958 as necessary. His views on European union.
The author is obviously admiring of de Gaulle but does not brush away his weak points -- the main one perhaps being that de Gaulle rhetorically treated the two superpowers as though they were an equal danger to France. In the end de Gaulle emerges as a supporter of democracy, but one who is not afraid to criticize its negative aspects. His idea that one must work against democracy's tendancy to promote mediocrity and conformity of ideas is straight out of Alexis de Tocqueville. If you want to get inside the head of de Gaulle, you've got to get your hands on this slim and profoundly thoughtful volume. I found it absolutely fascinating.
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Title: The Last Great Frenchman : A Life of General De Gaulle by Charles Williams ISBN: 0471180718 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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