Leon Blum
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Author | : Joel Colton |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307830896 |
John Colton is a meticulous researcher and a fine craftsman. In his political biography of Leon Blum, these two qualities are beautiully blended; none of the available evidence appears to have been over looked, and the enormous mass of variegated material has been transmuted in a polished, richly tapestried, and absorbing narrative.
Author | : Pierre Birnbaum |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300213735 |
Léon Blum (1872–1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the pro-German Vichy government; a passionate lover of women, art, and life. A tireless champion for workers’ rights, Blum dramatically changed French society by establishing the forty-hour work week, paid holidays, and collective bargaining on wage claims. He was also a proud Jew and Zionist, and a survivor who endured the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Unlike previous biographies that downplay the significance of Blum’s Jewish heritage on his progressive politics, Pierre Birnbaum’s portrait depicts an extraordinary man whose political convictions were shaped and driven by his religious and cultural background. The author powerfully demonstrates how Blum’s Jewishness was central to his milieu and mission from his earliest entry into the political arena in reaction to the Dreyfus Affair, and how it sustained and motivated him throughout the remainder of his life. Birnbaum’s Léon Blum is a critical chapter in the larger history of Jews in France.
Author | : Joel Colton |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822307624 |
John Colton is a meticulous researcher and a fine craftsman. In his political biography of Leon Blum, these two qualities are beautiully blended; none of the available evidence appears to have been over looked, and the enormous mass of variegated material has been transmuted in a polished, richly tapestried, and absorbing narrative.
Author | : Richard L. Stokes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258884611 |
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Author | : Léon Blum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : Judith Chazin-Bennahum |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2011-07-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199830479 |
René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but also illustrates the central role Blum played in the development of dance in the United States. Indeed, Blum's efforts to save his ballet company eventually helped to bring many of the world's greatest dancers and choreographers--among them Fokine, Balanchine, and Nijinska--to American ballet stages.
Author | : Richard Leroy Stokes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Tony Judt |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226414205 |
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time. Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society—antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public life, the Marxist moment in French thought, the traumas of decolonization, the disaffection of the intelligentsia, and the insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Judt focuses particularly on Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his stern defiance of the Vichy governments, on Camus's part in the Resistance and Algerian War, and on Aron's cultural commentary and opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of communism's utopian promise. Severely maligned by powerful critics and rivals, each of these exemplary figures stood fast in their principles and eventually won some measure of personal and public redemption. Judt constructs a compelling portrait of modern French intellectual life and politics. He challenges the conventional account of the role of intellectuals precisely because they mattered in France, because they could shape public opinion and influence policy. In Blum, Camus, and Aron, Judt finds three very different men who did not simply play the role, but evinced a courage and a responsibility in public life that far outshone their contemporaries. "An eloquent and instructive study of intellectual courage in the face of what the author persuasively describes as intellectual irresponsibility."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
Author | : Jean Lacouture |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Chronicles the life of the French Socialist leader, drawing attention to his contributions as a poet and a literary critic as well as his role in the political and cultural development of twentieth-century France.
Author | : William Logue |
Publisher | : DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780875800301 |