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"Merde ! La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas !" La célèbre apostrophe, prêtée au général Cambronne à Waterloo, illustre le mépris de la mort et le sacrifice authentique : celui qui consiste à donner sa vie pour un homme, une cause, une idéologie ou une patrie. Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire, cette bravoure intégrale se rencontre souvent à travers les siècles : Spartiates aux Thermopyles, cathares, jacobites, Sudistes, samouraïs, zouaves pontificaux. Communards, Russes blancs, résistants anticommunistes en Asie du Sud-Est, combattants kurdes - ou, tout récemment, ukrainiens - et bien d'autres encore se sont illustrés lors d'événements le plus souvent méconnus, telles la chouannerie de 1815 ou la lutte désespérée des Frères de la forêt, dans les pays Baltes, contre l'Armée rouge, après 1945. Tous, dans un dernier geste, ont marqué l'histoire et forgé la postérité sous le sceau du courage, de l'exaltation et du panache. Sous la direction de Jean-Christophe Buisson et Jean Sévillia, les meilleurs historiens et journalistes en racontent les épisodes les plus saillants dans des contributions enlevées. L'ensemble offre une histoire inédite de l'héroïsme à travers les âges

"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word of mouth, its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on its plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America. In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism -- creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation's true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation's future. Richardson's unique talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the historical roots and precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. Writing in her trademark calm prose, she manages to be both realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Richardson's easy command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of "movement conservatism." There are many books that tell us what has happened over the last five years. Democracy Awakening explains how we got to this perilous point, what our history really tells us about ourselves, and what the future of democracy can be"--