This short biography by Julian Jackson sketches the French leader as a man of high ideals and hard-nosed pragmatism. Maintaining France's grandeur was the objective, but de Gaulle was no starry-eyed dreamer. "In economics as in politics or strategy, there is no absolute truth ... only circumstances." Long before Clinton or Blair, de Gaulle was taking a "third way" between the harshness of unbridled capitalism and the despotism of extreme socialism.
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