Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Columbia. His latest book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (April 2009)
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Can You Really Become French?
April 9, 2009
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
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A Field Guide to the Birders
November 6, 2008
Of a Feather: A Brief Historyof 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 Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
by Jonathan Rosen
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird
by Bruce Barcott
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A Patriot for Pétain?
April 3, 2008
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Vichy vs. the Nazis
March 6, 2008
The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France
by Simon Kitson, translated from the French by Catherine Tihanyi
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Inside the Panic
November 22, 2007
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940
by Hanna Diamond
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It Wasn’t Just Morale
February 15, 2007
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Handing Over Jews
January 11, 2007
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The Jew Hater
November 16, 2006
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
by Carmen Callil
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
by Richard Vinen
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The Trial of Maurice Papon
December 16, 1999
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What’s Wrong with ‘Fascism’?
February 20, 1997
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The Uses of Fascism
November 28, 1996
Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 by Stanley G. Payne
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Radicals
June 23, 1994
The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution by Zeev Sternhell, with Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri, translated by David Maisel
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De Gaulle and His Myth
April 23, 1992
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Tricks of Memory
November 7, 1991
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
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The Company of Owls
December 21, 1989
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
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The Friendly Fascist
April 27, 1989
Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 by Paul Jankowski
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The Divided Liberal
March 2, 1989
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
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The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case
February 27, 1986
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
by Jean-Denis Bredin
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Mr. France
June 13, 1985
Pierre Mendès France by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch
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‘The Last King of France’
February 14, 1985
Pétain: Hero or Traitor, The Untold Story by Herbert R. Lottman
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Force de Frappe
April 26, 1984
Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook
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Living with the Enemy
June 16, 1983
French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
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The Planistes
April 14, 1983
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Founding Uncle
January 20, 1983
Léon Blum by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch
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Did the Resistance Matter?
August 14, 1980
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun
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Not a Chaser
March 6, 1980
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Web-Footed Gentry
December 20, 1979
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
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Papa Europe
November 23, 1978
Memoirs by Jean Monnet, translated by Richard Mayne
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The Mess of Things
September 28, 1978
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

