Philip Short

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Mitterrand

A Study in Ambiguity

Beschreibung

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Franà ois 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.

Autor

Philip Short is the author of acclaimed biographies of Pol Pot and Mao Zedong. He worked for ten years as the BBC's Paris correspondent and lives in France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 703339
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780099597896
• ISBN-10: 0099597896
• Artikelnr.: 41152389

Rezensionen

Short gives an extremely vivid account of the way Mitterrand exercised the office of president Jonathan Derbyshire Prospect