Why the Dreyfus Affair matters [[electronic resource] /] / Louis Begley
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Begley Louis
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| Titolo: |
Why the Dreyfus Affair matters [[electronic resource] /] / Louis Begley
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 944.081/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Trials (Treason) - Political aspects - France |
| Antisemitism - France - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | France History Third Republic, 1870-1940 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. "If they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening" -- Two. "The past is never dead" -- Three. "What do you care if that Jew stays on Devil's Island?" -- Four. "The truth marches on and nothing will stop it" -- Five. "Dreyfus was rehabilitated, Picquart became minister of war, and nobody said boo" -- Cast of Characters -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards-committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another-against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? In Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of our liberties and honor. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Why the Dreyfus Affair matters |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35349-7 |
| 9786612353499 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456876703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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