Francois Mitterrand: A Political BiographyISBN: 978-0-7456-3105-9
Paperback
224 pages
October 2005, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Times Literary Supplement
"This is one of the best political biographies that I know. Bell
depicts Mitterrand with the bark on and pulls no punches. It is a
superbly realistic study of a totally political man."
Erwin C. Hargrove, University of Vanderbilt
"David Bell’s thorough grasp of the political background
of modern France enables him to provide a fascinating account of
Mitterrand’s journey from the 1930s through the war years and
the Fourth French Republic to the complicated and fluid politics of
the Fifth Republic. Mitterrand's personal beliefs are hard to
fathom, but throughout this penetrating study David Bell guides us
to a good understanding of the motivations and values which lay
behind the actions of one of the most enigmatic politicians to have
held power in France."
B. D. Graham, formerly University of Sussex