François Mitterrand

François Mitterrand
Author: Ronald Tiersky
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780742524736

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.

Francois Mitterrand

Francois Mitterrand
Author: Sally Baumann-Reynolds
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780275948870

This book traces the prepresidential career of the Socialist French president, covering his early years, his participation in the Vichy government, the Resistance and the governments of the Fourth Republic, and his 23 year march to the pinnacle of national power as leader of the French opposition during the first decades of the Fifth Republic. It is the story of a politician who built a solid majority starting from scratch in adopted political territory, a chaotic world of utopists, anarchists, purists, ideologues, and disciplined militants—in short, the French left. Baumann-Reynolds discusses the whats—Mitterrand's socialism, his republicanism, his Machiavellianism—and the hows—how he reacted to unpredictable events, how he took over the Socialist Party, and how he recuperated the communist vote. This is the first English-language biography by an American sensitive to the gaps in U.S. readers' knowledge of French politics.

Francois Mitterrand

Francois Mitterrand
Author: Alistair Cole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1317761502

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.

Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification

Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Author: Frédéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1845457870

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.

Mitterrand

Mitterrand
Author: Philip Short
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0099597896

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.

Francois Mitterrand

Francois Mitterrand
Author: David Bell
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-10-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745631045

Francois Mitterrand was one of the giants of post-war French politics - a master tactician whose political career spanned more than four decades from wartime occupation to decolonization, the Cold War to European integration. As President, elected twice, he enjoyed an unprecedented fourteen years in office, bringing the left to power and demonstrating that it was a credible governing coalition over some ten years. When he died in 1998, Mitterrand left an enduring political legacy not only on the French domestic scene, but also in European and foreign affairs. In this pre-eminently accessible political biography, David Bell, offers a fascinating 'behind-the-scenes' analysis of the politics of Francois Mitterrand. Bringing together a wealth of material, Bell explores Mitterrand's political leadership and the techniques he used in attaining and wielding political power. Mitterrand's unusual journey from right to left, from the Third to the Fifth Republic is a story of ambition, manipulation and ideological fluidity, which provides a lens through which the entire political history of post-war France may be viewed. This engaging assessment of one man's contribution to an era of French and European politics will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary political leadership, French politics, history and European affairs.

Dying Without God

Dying Without God
Author: Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1999-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781559704434

Is one ever truly ready to face death? Can one, without faith, view death as a beginning rather than an end? The man dying without God is Francois Mitterrand, who was battling prostate cancer during both of his seven-year terms as President of France. Near the end, he called on a longtime friend, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, to whom he opened his mind as he had to no other person. One of the most complex personages of the century, Mitterrand offers in these pages his final, unforgettable testament.

The President's Hat

The President's Hat
Author: Antoine Laurain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913547165

Like Cinderella's glass slipper or Aladdin's lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers' dreams come true.

The Glass State

The Glass State
Author: Annette Fierro
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262062336

From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions.