Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
Few figures loom as large over the turbulent landscape of modern French history as Georges Clemenceau — the tenacious statesman known as The Tiger — whose iron will and radical convictions shaped the destiny of a nation through war, scandal, and revolution. David Robin Watson's Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary politician from his early days as a firebrand Republican and champion of the Dreyfus Affair, through his towering role as France's wartime Prime Minister, to his fierce and ultimately frustrated struggle at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Watson presents a rigorous, meticulously researched portrait that situates Clemenceau within the broader currents of the Third Republic, illuminating the ideological battles between clericalism and secularism, nationalism and radicalism, that defined an era. The author's precise, analytical prose neither mythologises nor diminishes its subject, instead grounding Clemenceau's formidable personality in the concrete realities of political power. For readers of French history, this authoritative study raises a haunting question: could a more merciful peace have averted the catastrophe to come?
Author: David Robin Watson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
Few figures loom as large over the turbulent landscape of modern French history as Georges Clemenceau — the tenacious statesman known as The Tiger — whose iron will and radical convictions shaped the destiny of a nation through war, scandal, and revolution. David Robin Watson's Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary politician from his early days as a firebrand Republican and champion of the Dreyfus Affair, through his towering role as France's wartime Prime Minister, to his fierce and ultimately frustrated struggle at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Watson presents a rigorous, meticulously researched portrait that situates Clemenceau within the broader currents of the Third Republic, illuminating the ideological battles between clericalism and secularism, nationalism and radicalism, that defined an era. The author's precise, analytical prose neither mythologises nor diminishes its subject, instead grounding Clemenceau's formidable personality in the concrete realities of political power. For readers of French history, this authoritative study raises a haunting question: could a more merciful peace have averted the catastrophe to come?