A taste for intrigue
Subtitle: the multiple lives of François Mitterrand
By: Philip Short
Edition: First U.S. Edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780805088533
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Biography
Other titles: Multiple lives of François Mitterrand
Notes: "A John Macrae Book."

"Originally published in then U.K. in 2013 by The Bodley Head"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A family apart; title: The captive; title: Schisms of war; title: Loose ends, new beginnings; title: The staircase of power; title: Requiem for empire; title: Crossing the desert; title: De Gaulle again; title: Union of the left; title: Politics is war; title: The novitiate; title: The sphinx; title: The Florentine; title: The monarch; title: The survivalist; title: The testament; title: Acronyms.