servan schreiber jean jacques steel ronald (3 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. xiv 210p hardback, scarlet cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to covers, binding tight, name and hand-written note to endpaper, pages clean and bright, a very good pre-owned copy Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. xviii, 291,[7] pages. Footnotes. Tabular data. Illustrations. Index. DJ is price clipped and has a tear and sticker residue at the back. This is a startling report on the impact of American Industry, Technology and Culture on Europe and the World. Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The main sections are: The Assault on Europe, America's Arsenal, Europe in Confusion, Counterattack, The Political Question, and The Wellsprings of Poser. Among the topics address include: Post-Industrial Society, The Denison Report, Robert McNamara, Computers, The Concorde Affair, Space Exploration, Federalism, Justice, and Investment. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924 - 7 November 2006), was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical Party in 1971. He oversaw its transition to the center-right, the party being thereafter known as Parti radical valoisien. He tried to found in 1972 the Reforming Movement with Christian Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election. This book is about the history of the United States from its beginning to the present day. It covers everything from the American Revolution to the present day. The author has done a great job of describing the different events that have taken place in the United States and how they have affected the country. As the 1960s unfolded, Servan-Schreiber found himself in the position of a rich press lord, a political editorialist always chasing after new ideas. His trenchant analysis drew some of the first minds of his generation to him. Growing more and more disenchanted with De Gaulle's policies, he was no longer willing to settle for an observer's role. He found a collaborator in Michel Albert, who provided him with extensive documentation to inform his editorials. One of Albert's reports struck him particularly. It presented the United States and Europe as engaged in a silent economic war, in which Europe appeared to be completely outclassed on all fronts: management techniques, technological tools, and research capacity. Servan-Schreiber saw in this thesis the potential for a seminal book. He fleshed it out with reading keys and concrete proposals for a counter-offensive. The result was his international best-seller Le Défi Américain ("The American Challenge", 1967). It sold a quantity unprecedented for a political essay, and was translated into 15 languages. This book was instrumental in creating a resurgence of French nationalism and drawing attention to the importance of transnational cooperation in Europe. Building on the book's success, he traveled throughout Europe, speaking to packed lecture halls, touting the advantages of a federal Europe with a common currency and of a decentralized France. Derived from a Kirkus review: Servan-Schreiber, the young, influential French publisher does make a plausible case for the use of American managerial methods as an alternative to American economic domination. He raises at least four separate and distinct issues. . . . First, U.S. economic penetration in Europe and the monopolistic capitalism which guides it. Second, European "incapacity" lack of capital or technique? No, says Servan-Schreiber, of organization know-how. Third, European unity; fourth, European policies toward the U.S. in the light of recent developments. While the first point is irrefutable, and the second debatable, the third and fourth demand a great deal of background in order to place Servan-Schreiber's position between anti-Americanism plus discrete nationalism, and political unitarianism plus unlimited receptivity to economic influence. A revival of American interest in Europe is welcome, given the monetary crisis which Servan-Schreiber analyzes: but Servan-Schreiber displays a reluctance to commit himself to a final analysis or set of recommendations. This book is far more valuable for its questions than its answers. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. A beautiful bright red coloured hardback book, with silver coloured title impressions running along the spine. Comes with dust wrapper, price clipped. The book is in really good condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. 210 pages all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Nice tight binding. First published in Great Britain in 1968, First Edition. Jacket design by Norma Crockford. Printed in Great Britain by The Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol. The French publication of this book aroused unprecedented controversy. This is one of the seminal books of the last decade.