de Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur and Modern Democracy

by Daniel J. Mahoney

This analysis of the thought and action of Charles de Gaulle explores the intellectual foundations of Gaullist statecraft. Mahoney's careful exegesis of de Gaulle's major writings and speeches, reveals a penetrating political thinker as well as a major political actor. He explains de Gaulle to an American public that too often sees him as a posturing figure suffering from an exaggerated and misplaced sense of personal and national grandeur. Mahoney...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138521981
• ISBN13: 9781138521988
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages