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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Brown, Frederick, 1934-     Subjects     Fascism -- France -- History -- 20th century.     Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 20th century.     Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Influence.     France -- History -- 1914-1940.     France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, Frederick, 1934-       by title:      The embrace of unrea...       by call number:      944.0814 B877e     Search the Web     Brown, Frederick, 1934-     Fascism -- France -- History -- 20th century.     Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 20th century.     Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Influence.     France -- History -- 1914-1940.     France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.       MARC Display

The embrace of unreason : France, 1914-1940 / Frederick Brown. by Brown, Frederick, 1934- Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Call #: 944.0814 B877e Subjects Fascism -- France -- History -- 20th century.   Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 20th century.   Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Influence.   France -- History -- 1914-1940.   France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940. ISBN:  9780307595157 (hc.) 0307595153 (hc.) 9780307742360 (pbk.) 0307742369 (pbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xi, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Notes:  "This is a Borzoi Book."--Tp. verso Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history...hard to put down."-Henry Kissinger); Zola ("Magnificent."-The New Yorker); and Flaubert ("Impeccable."-James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review)-a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France's embrace of Fascism and anti-Semitism. Frederick Brown explores the tumultuous forces unleashed by the Dreyfus Affair, and examines how the clashing ideologies and the blood-soaked political scandals and artistic movements following the horror of World War I resulted in the country's era of militant authoritarianism; and how rioting, violent racism, and nationalistic fervor overtook France's sense of reason, sealed its fate, and led to the rise of the Vichy government. We see how the French intelligentsia turned away from the humanistic traditions and rationalistic ideals of the Enlightenment in favor of submission to authority that stressed patriotism, militarism, and xenophobia; how French conservatives attempted to rebuild and reshape the country's collective identity as the German threat loomed, as mistrust of the parliamentary Republic increased (a result of its illegal financial mismanagement of the building of the Panama Canal, and nostalgia for a monarchial government and the glories of wartime martyrdom); how the generation that came of age in the trenches, under fire, offered a new vision, and saw salvation in the surrender of reason to instinct. Brown masterfully brings to life Europe's-and France's-darkest modern years."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.0814 B877e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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