Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short Bodley Head, 2013, 704 pages, $69.99 In his dying days, Francois Mitterrand wryly noted to a novelist friend that his life had followed a simple logic: “I work in shades of grey … There are black threads and white threads, I weave them together and with that I make grey.” In the variegated and murky world of twentieth-century French politics, a capacity for reinvention and rebranding went a long way. Philip Short’s Mitterrand is the first substantial English-language treatment of Mitterrand, who was the French President between 1981 and 1995 and the…
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