{"product_id":"de-gaulle-9780674241459","title":"De Gaulle","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize A New Yorker  Financial Times  Spectator  Times  and Telegraph Book of the Year  In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France  Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters  memoirs  and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive  he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill  challenged American hegemony  recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam  and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.  With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sourcesJulian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo  for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor. Richard Norton Smith  Wall Street Journal  A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant  infuriating  and ineffably French of men. Ross Douthat  New York Times  Classically composed and authoritativeJackson writes wonderful political history. Adam Gopnik  New Yorker  A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected  intelligently and lucidly  then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded  highly readable portrait. Throughout  the book tells a thrilling story. Antonia Fraser  New Statesman  Makes awesome reading  and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject  and to Jacksons mastery of itA triumph  and hugely readable. Max Hastings  Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960396144693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674241452","price":57.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674241459.jpg?v=1788286044","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/de-gaulle-9780674241459","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}