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The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive France and Save the World
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Author:
William Drozdiak
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
April 28, 2020
Brookings Institution senior fellow William Drozdiak takes a deep dive into the French presidency of Emmanuel Macron and the political challenges the French leader continues to face, including the populist insurrection in his own country and external forces weighing against the European Union.
What The Reviewers Say
Reading The Last President of Europe is like rewatching a Netflix series about the fluke election of an ambitious, dynamic young man to France’s highest office. We’ve seen the movie, but the plot was complicated.
Macron is an internationalist who believes that European civilisation is at stake in a crumbling world order. This is a highly readable, balanced and insightful analysis of his mission to save it.
Drozdiak’s is a largely admiring account of how Mr Macron recovered his poise after the gilets jaunes protests to become Europe’s most ambitious and visionary leader. Drawing mostly on newspaper reports, interviews with Élysée Palace advisers and the president himself, Drozdiak gives us a tidy primer on Mr Macron’s sophisticated world view.
Drozdiak...cleanly delineates the young, charismatic French leader’s sweeping aims since his accession to the presidency.
