Power and Pleasure

by Robert J. Young

Book Overview

Neither Barthou's contemporaries nor subsequent historians have known quite what to make of this bourgeois politician who fought a duel with Jean Jaur s and flew with Wilbur Wright. Many concluded he was an individual of considerable talent, few principles, and excessive ambition. No one, reading Power and Pleasure, can maintain that view. Robert Young, constructing a complete picture of Barthou, effectively refutes the charge of unprincipled ambition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508635
• ISBN13: 9780773508637
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.