Esteta, sensuale, topo di biblioteca, politico dall'astuzia machiavellica: françois mitterrand era un uomo di eccezionali doti e difetti che, durante i suoi quattordici anni da presidente, si è sforzato di trascinare il suo paese legato alla tradizione e avverso al cambiamento nel mondo moderno. Come statista e come essere umano, è stato l'incarnazione della francia mutevole e anticonformista che la gran bretagna e l'america trovano così perennemente frustrante. Ha incarnato le ambiguità e le contraddizioni di una nazione la cui identità moderna è fondata su un ostinato rifiuto di adattarsi allo schema anglo-americano delle cose. Eppure ha cambiato la francia più profondamente di tutti i suoi recenti predecessori, presumibilmente incluso persino il suo grande rivale, charles de gaulle. Durante la guerra è stato sia il leader di un movimento di resistenza che decorato per i servizi resi al regime collaborazionista di vichy. Dopo aver flirtato con l'estrema destra, è entrato in parlamento con il sostegno dei conservatori e della chiesa cattolica prima di diventare il leader indiscusso della sinistra. Come presidente, portò i comunisti francesi al governo per meglio distruggerli. E nel frattempo riuscì a trovare il tempo per una vita privata straordinariamente complicata. Questa è una biografia umana tanto quanto politica, e un ritratto accattivante di una vita che rispecchiava i tempi di mitterrand.
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Philip Short has written authoritative biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare, following a long career as a foreign correspondent for the BBC in Moscow, Washington and other world capitals.
He spent eight years researching and writing this book, working mainly from sources within Russia, but also in Britain, France, the United States and a dozen other countries.
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