Memoirs

By Jean Monnet

Book Overview

Excerpt from M moires de Jean Monnet, Directeur du Th tre de la Foire La mort de la duchesse de Berry en 1719, lui enleva une protectrice dont il avait grand besoin, mais le lib ra d'une situation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385125054
• ISBN13: 9780385125055
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Story of a Leader

Jean Monnet changed history. Not through political office, but through the power of a great idea and an intelligent and unyielding campaign to make the idea a reality, a campaign that was simultaneously idealistic and utterly grounded in both principle and reality.Monnet deserves to be recognized, alongside King and Gandhi, as one of the three great citizen leaders of the 20th century. The book tells his stories in his own words. It is worth reading.

Father of EU

I read this book because of making a paper in my class of political leadership & elite. There is an interesting article on Monnet in H.Gardner book about political leaders. Monnet was promoting his vision by using other political leaders .In the same time he was offering them the glory (f.e. Schuman plan). If anyone wants to exchange opinions on the matter let me know! alexandros@mauimail.com

A glimpse into the mind that created the European Community

Starting life as the net-in-line to a prosperous Cognac producer, his extensive European connections and business skills led Jean Monnet to be named as a prime European liason to the US during WWII. His sole mission was to secure critical supplies for waging the war against the Nazis. Chasing item after crucial item, he learned and became fascinated with the workings of a true free market economy. After the war he set out on a single minded mission to create the United States of Europe out of the chaos left by the war. Fighting centuries of division, animosity, and separatism, Jean doggedly advanced his concept of a free market covering the entire map of Europe. He was convinced that this would result in a renaissance of European industry and commerce, and the hearts and minds of Europeans would follow their pocketbooks. Told in a very matt-of-fact manner, his persistence and uncompromising attention to even the slightest detail gives insight as to how he succeeded in planting the seeds of the modern European Community. His influence was so great that the Economist magazine has consistently advocated that the new European Community common currency be called the "Monnet."