Volume 31, Number 7 · April 26, 1984
Force de Frappe
By Robert O. Paxton
Charles de Gaulle: A Biography
by Don Cook
G.P. Putnam's, 432 pp., $22.95
It is good to have a life of Charles de Gaulle once again available in English. There had been none at all since the English-language publishers of Jean Lacouture's De Gaulle—still the most perceptive biography—let it go out of print a half-decade ago. Sad obscurity for a man who, at one time, provoked Americans into pouring good Burgundy down the gutters and, at another time, received a ticker-tape parade down Broadway, but at no time in the last forty years left Americans indifferent.
Review, 2918 words
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