1st Edition
De Gaulle Statesmanship, Grandeur and Modern Democracy
By Daniel J Mahoney
Copyright 2000
210 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword by Pierre Manent Introduction: The Thought and Action of Charles de Gaulle De Gaulle's Idea of France The Man of Character as Born Protector: Magnanimity, Justice, and Moderation in de Gaulle's The Edge of the Sword De Gaulle's Mission and the Legitimacy of Free France Democracy, Greatness, and Civilization: De Gaulle and a Certain Conception of Man De Gaulle's Constitutional Correction: Executive Power and the Theory and Practice of Modern Republicanism The Unity of Europe and the Greatness of France: De Gaulle's Vision of a Europe of Nations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Biography
DANIEL J. MAHONEY teaches political science at Assumption College, Worcester, MA./ee is the author of The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron (1992), and the editor of In Defense of Political Reason (1994).
