Volume 33, Number 3 · February 27, 1986

The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case

By Robert O. Paxton
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
by Jean-Denis Bredin

Braziller, 628 pp., $24.95

Another book about the Dreyfus Affair? What could possibly justify loading another volume upon that already over-crowded shelf? The simplest answer is the timelessness of the story. It is a morality tale.



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