Robert O. Paxton

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 2009)

From the Review

April 9, 2009: Can You Really Become French?

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789 by Patrick Weil, translated from the French by Catherine Porter

Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France by Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse

November 6, 2008: A Field Guide to the Birders

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding by Scott Weidensaul

Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son by Kenn Kaufman

Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott

The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen

April 3, 2008: A Patriot for Pétain? (letter)

March 6, 2008: Vichy vs. the Nazis

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France by Simon Kitson, translated from the French by Catherine Tihanyi

November 22, 2007: Inside the Panic

Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond

February 15, 2007: It Wasn't Just Morale (letter)

January 11, 2007: Handing over Jews (letter)

November 16, 2006: The Jew Hater

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen

December 16, 1999: The Trial of Maurice Papon

February 20, 1997: What's Wrong with 'Fascism'? (letter)

November 28, 1996: The Uses of Fascism

Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur

A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 by Stanley G. Payne

June 23, 1994: Radicals

The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution by Zeev Sternhell, with Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri, translated by David Maisel

April 23, 1992: De Gaulle and His Myth

De Gaulle: Vol. I, The Rebel: 1890-1944 by Jean Lacouture, translated by Patrick O'Brian

De Gaulle: Vol. II, The Ruler: 1945-1970 by Jean Lacouture, translated by Alan Sheridan

November 7, 1991: Tricks of Memory

The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

December 21, 1989: The Company of Owls

North American Owls: Biology and Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard, with watercolors by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Owls of the Northern Hemisphere by Karel H. Voous, illustrated by Ad Cameron

April 27, 1989: The Friendly Fascist

Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 by Paul Jankowski

March 2, 1989: The Divided Liberal

Tocqueville: A Biography by André Jardin, translated by Lydia Davis, with Robert Hemenway

Tocqueville and the Two Democracies by Jean-Claude Lamberti, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

February 27, 1986: The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case

The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin

June 13, 1985: Mr. France

Pierre Mendès France by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

February 14, 1985: 'The Last King of France'

Pétain: Hero or Traitor, The Untold Story by Herbert R. Lottman

April 26, 1984: Force de Frappe

Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook

June 16, 1983: Living with the Enemy

French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb

April 14, 1983: The Planistes (letter)

January 20, 1983: Founding Uncle

Léon Blum by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

August 14, 1980: Did the Resistance Matter?

Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun

March 6, 1980: Not a Chaser (letter)

December 20, 1979: Web-Footed Gentry

The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds by William T. Cooper, by Joseph M. Forshaw

The Herons of the World by James Hancock, by Hugh Elliott, paintings by Robert Gillmor, by Peter Hayman

Rails of the World by S. Dillon Ripley, paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne

Manual of Neo-Tropical Birds, Volume I by Emmett Reid Blake

Eleanora's Falcon: Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor by Hartmut Walter

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region by John Bull, by John Farrand Jr.

Western Region by Miklos D.F. Udvardy

November 23, 1978: Papa Europe

Memoirs by Jean Monnet, translated by Richard Mayne

September 28, 1978: The Mess of Things

France 1848-1945 Volume I: Ambition, Love and Politics Volume II: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety by Theodore Zeldin

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan by Stephen A. Schuker

Books by Robert O. Paxton

French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgere's Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939 (1997)
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 (1982)
Europe in the Twentieth Century (1975)
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-194 (1972)