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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Faults Enough and to Spare -- 2 Defending the Faith -- 3 Beyond All Possible Bounds -- 4 The Parisians Have Gone Mad -- 5 That Damned Congress -- 6 Fusillade at Fourmies -- 7 A Dangerous Dream -- 8 Peasants and Patriots -- 9 Beaten But Not Stoned -- 10 Let Us Storm the Forts -- 11 The Myth That Seems Absurd -- 12 Pleasantries or Naïvetés -- 13 Absurd and Incredible Conduct -- 14 Party of Opposition -- 15 Socialism and the Intellectuals -- 16 A Force Retarding Human Progress -- 17 The Unperceived Force -- 18 One Reform on Top of Another -- 19 Simply ... Logical -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index

Charles de Gaulle of France, Juan Per̤n of Argentina, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada all achieved the pinnacle of political power, fell from or relinquished power, and then, after a period in the political wilderness, regained their power. By placing greater emphasis than that customarily accorded by biographers on the interment that followed their fall and preceded their resurrection, Derfler describes what they did, the lessons they learned, and the mistakes made by their successors that facilitated their reentry.

A subtitle of this essay could conceivably read, "a subject in search of a biographer". It examines the motives of Jules Guesde, who introduced and organized Marxism in France, in shifting from revolutionary to reformist, and back to a revolutionary position. In charting these movements I have applied some new evidence, that found in recently available police archives, to an old problem.