Why the Dreyfus Affair matters / Louis Begley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Begley, Louis.

Contributor:

Dreyfus Affair Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Why X matters

[Why X matters]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.

Dreyfus, Alfred.

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935--Influence.

Trials (Treason)--Political aspects--France.

Trials (Treason).

Trials (Treason)--Political aspects.

France.

Antisemitism--France--History--19th century.

Antisemitism.

History.

France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.

Penn Provenance:

Pollack, John (donor) (inscription) (Dreyfus copy)

Begley, Louis (autograph) (Dreyfus copy 1)

Beitler, Lorraine (donor) (Dreyfus Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]

Summary:

In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards - committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another - against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.--[source unknown]

Contents:

"If they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening"

"The past is never dead"

"What do you care if that Jew stays on Devil's Island?"

"The truth marches on and nothing will stop it"

"Dreyfus was rehabilitated, Picquart became Minster of War, and nobody said boo."

Notes:

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare Dreyfus copy 1 has NYT book review inserted in front.

Dreyfus Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Lorraine Beitler.

Dreyfus Collection copy 2 has dust jacket. Also has 3 loose pats with handwritten notes laid in, and some other underlining of text.

ISBN:

9780300125320

0300125321

OCLC:

302099932