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1) For the Soul of France

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Brown, Frederick

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

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Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and writer: a portrait of fin-de-siècle France.
He writes about the forces that led up to the...

2) The embrace of unreason: France, 1914-1940

Author

Brown, Frederick

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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944.081 BROWN

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944.081 BROWN

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2014.	First edition.	Alfred A. Knopf	xi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 944.081 BROWN Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 944.081 BROWN	More Info Place Hold

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"From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history...hard to put down."-Henry Kissinger); Zola ("Magnificent." --The New Yorker); andFlaubert ("Impeccable."-James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review)-a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France's embrace of Fascism and anti-Semitism. Frederick Brown explores the tumultuous...