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FYI France : Front National resources update, digital+
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FYI France : Front National resources update, digital+
The Front National appears to be on the march again politically,=20
and readers and their libraries digital & other, everywhere, are=20
wondering -- "Is this a new FN?", "What happened to the old=20
one?", "Who is leading this current FN, and is it different and=20
if so how, and what has become of the old FN and its leadership?"=20
-- about this Extreme Right party which repeatedly has dominated=20
the political headlines, if not necessarily the politics, of the=20
past quarter-century in France.
Now, once more, the Front National's national poll popularity has=20
bulged up, into the double digits: 18%, 24% -- its new and some=20
say even more charismatic leader, daughter of the founder, is=20
running to become political kingmaker and perhaps even president=20
of France.
It always has been difficult to find, and to provide, good=20
information on the Front National phenomenon. Even within the=20
Hexagone there has been much disagreement: diabolization, blind=20
dismissal, also blind adoration, both the invocation of history=20
and the ignorance of it, and much fear and great hatred on both=20
sides -- the party has been used to conjure up terrible=20
nightmares of the European 1940s and 1930s and before, as well as=20
for-some the equally-terrible specters of 21st century=20
founderings now of civil society, of culture, of family=20
structure, of all-that-is-good.
So, a list of new books about the Front National in France=20
follows below, here -- supplementing, for historians, the far=20
longer list which has been assembled on the FYI France website,=20
URL address also below here, over the years -- read!... -- most=20
things-political get written-about before they happen, it's just=20
that too often we don't read about them until afterward --
* Goodliffe, Gabriel -- The Resurgence of the Radical Right in=20
France : From Boulangisme to the Front National (2011)
* Le Pen, Marine -- Marine Le Pen =E0 contre flots : autobiographie (2011)
* Fourest, Caroline ; Venner, Fiammetta -- Marine Le Pen (2011)
* M=E9nard, Robert ; le Duverger, Emmanuelle -- Vive Le Pen ! (2011)
* Kosciusko-Morizet, Nathalie -- Le front antinational (2011)
* Simon, Jean-Marc -- Marine Le Pen, au nom du p=E8re (2011)
* Liszkai, L=E0szlo -- Marine le Pen, le nouveau Front National ? (2010)
* Petaux, Jean -- Jean-Marie Le Pen : Front national (2010)
* Ellinas, Antonis A. -- The media and the far right in western=20
Europe : playing the nationalist card (2010)
* Bornschier, Simon -- Cleavage politics and the populist right :=20
the new cultural conflict in Western Europe (2010)
* Berezin, Mabel -- Illiberal politics in neoliberal times :=20
culture, security and populism in the new Europe (2009)
* Berntson, Marit -- Joan of Arc's Daughters: Women in France's=20
National Front (2009)
* Gautier, Jean-Paul -- Les extr=E8mes droites en France : de la=20
travers=E9e du d=E9sert =E0 l'ascension du Front national, 1945-2008 (2009)
* Shields, James G. -- The Extreme Right in France: From P=E9tain=20
to Le Pen (Kindle ebook edition!, 2009)
-- publication information and other details regarding the above,=20
including publishers' descriptions both in French and translated=20
into English, may be found online at,
http://www.fyifrance.com/FN/fnbks.htm
And there are additional digital resources and other information=20
about the Front National on the website, as well: see generally,
http://www.fyifrance.com/fnind
-- on all of which I would greatly appreciate some help...
Much of my data there I have neglected, and it has grown=20
out-of-date: I myself frankly never believed -- several times=20
now, I admit -- that the Front National ever would be back. I=20
thought this party would dwindle and disappear along with its=20
then-already-elderly leader, beginning 'way back in the 1980s era=20
of his most explosive effusions.
But it seems, for reasons I do not fully understand, that for at=20
least some of the French the appeal of the FN transcends the=20
lifespan of its leader... the Le Pen we knew before is now aged=20
82+ and apparently is fully-retired, but now the FN has located=20
another Le Pen...
Any suggestions from readers here as to updates, then ---=20
corrections, to my current FN data, and most of all new sources=20
-- will be gratefully received, via email to kessler@well.com .
The more we all learn about this new or at least repackaged and=20
apparently now more user-friendly Front National of daughter=20
Marine Le Pen the better, I believe. France still is one of the=20
leading nations of our geopolitical world, and she has been one=20
of the formative forces of many of our various cultures --=20
friends in Vietnam follow the French, as do some in Ulan Batar,=20
Dakar, Buenos Aires... It is important to all of us to know who=20
leads the Front National, and who influences that leadership, and=20
how and most of all why they do.
Print libraries, digital libraries, the demise of both the=20
bookshop and the newspapers... The perennial problem of how-=20
to-stay-current, in a new and fascinating and still-perilous=20
albeit now-digital world...
Bonnes vacances,
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
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