Download or read book Leon Blum written by Joel Colton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book L on Blum written by Joel Colton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Leon Blum Prime Minister Socialist Zionist written by Pierre Birnbaum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 enlightening 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 infamous Dreyfus Affair, and how it sustained and motivated him throughout the remainder of his life.
Download or read book Leon Blum written by Richard L. Stokes and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Download or read book Leon Blum Before His Judges written by Léon Blum and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Blum written by Richard Leroy Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L on Blum written by William Logue and published by DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L on Blum written by Jean Lacouture and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Burden of Responsibility written by Tony Judt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes written by Judith Chazin-Bennahum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book L on Blum written by Stephen Eric Bronner and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French political leader who was premier of France from 1936-1937.
Download or read book L on Blum Before His Judges at the Supreme Court of Riom March 11th and 12th 1942 written by Léon Blum and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Blum written by Jean Lacouture and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti semitism in France written by Pierre Birnbaum and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Blum the Evolution of His Socialist Doctrine written by Mary Katherine Watson Downs and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Blum French Socialism and Popular Front written by Helmut Gruber and published by . This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
