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Article: De Gaulle the Ruler: 1945-1970. (book reviews)
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- March 1, 1993
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It is a measure of how far Charles de Gaulle has receded into history - and out of the controversy that marked his years in office - that the American PBS television network recently ran a three-hour documentary on the most epic Frenchman of this century. The second volume of Jean Lacouture's massive biography (which was published in three volumes in the original French version) makes fresh again the awesome nature of de Gaulle's accomplishments as well as the dimension of his errors. And both were surrounded in drama and dispute in his own country and beyond, especially in the United States.
This volume begins with an appropriately dramatic prologue, de Gaulle's ...
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