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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Harris, Ruth, 1958-     Subjects     Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.     Scandals -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Intellectuals -- France -- Biography.     Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Jews -- France -- Biography.     Treason -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Trials (Treason) -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.     France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.     France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harris, Ruth, 1958-       by title:      Dreyfus : politics, ...      Man on Devil's Islan...       by call number:      944.0512 H315d     Search the Web     Harris, Ruth, 1958-     Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.     Scandals -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Intellectuals -- France -- Biography.     Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Jews -- France -- Biography.     Treason -- France -- History -- 19th century.     Trials (Treason) -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.     France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.     France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.       MARC Display

Dreyfus : politics, emotion, and the scandal of the century / Ruth Harris. by Harris, Ruth, 1958- Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2010. Call #: 944.0512 H315d Subjects Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.   Scandals -- France -- History -- 19th century.   Intellectuals -- France -- Biography.   Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.   Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century.   Jews -- France -- Biography.   Treason -- France -- History -- 19th century.   Trials (Treason) -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.   France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.   France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. ISBN:  0805074716 9780805074710 Uniform title:  Man on Devil's Island Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  xvi, 541 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2010 as The man on Devil's Island by Allen Lane, London"--T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Degradation -- Family and friends -- France, Germany and the Jewish community -- The Alsatian connection -- Zola -- The polemic begins -- Dreyfusard contradictions -- 'Anti-intellectuals' : Catholics and the occult -- Dreyfusards and the Judaeo-Christian tradition -- Mother-love and nationalism : Maurice Barrès and Jules Soury -- Anti-Dreyfusard movements and martyrology -- The Dreyfusard mystique -- Salonnières left and right -- Rightist illusions -- Alfred returns -- The trial and its aftermath -- Aftershocks -- The politics of rehabilitation. Summary:  In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongly convicted of spying for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Attempts were made in the following years to correct this injustice, but inflicted wounds on the society of France. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 944.0512 H315d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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