Andrew Shennan: 2 books

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

If any modern democratic leader has believed in the "great man'' theory of history and acted self-consciously in accordance with it, it was surely de Gaulle. On both occasions when he came to power it was in his own right, as a ``providential figure'', not as the representative of a political or social...