00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003719 15444/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15443/MKRI-P/XII-2009 20221114011840 15443/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15444/MKRI-P/XII-2009 0010-0520003719 221114################|##########|#eng## 9780813328515 eng 944.083 944.083 FRI l Friend, Julius Weis Long Presidency : France in the Mitterrand Years, 1981-1995 / Julius Weis Friend Colorado : South-Western Cengage Learning, 1998 xii, 308p.; 23 cm. ; 23 cm. Indeks : p.293-308 p.287-292 In this informed and balanced treatment of recent French history, Julius Friend analyzes the changes, successes, and failures in the long and checkered record of the former French president, Francois-Maurice Mitterrand. Extensive interviews with French politicians and intellectuals complement his original research. Mitterrand was in office longer than any other democratic president, but Friend asks us to consider the legacy of such a term. Elected in 1981 on a platform of radical reorganization of the French economy and society, Mitterrand was compelled to change policy within two years. Conventional austerity replaced socialist measures, and his second term was spotted by scandal and weakened by illness. The Mitterrand era saw the end of French hopes to be first among equals in Western Europe; instead, Mitterrand inaugurated a partnership with unified Germany in the European Union. Mitterrand, Francois, 1916 - -- Influence France - Politics and government -- 1981-1995 15443/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15444/MKRI-P/XII-2009