Peggy Phillips

Written by a born and bred New Yorker who spent the first half-century of her life in the world's most unique City, this engaging, vibrant memoir evokes a fascinating, unforgettable era with rare fidelity. Operating on many levels—family, show business, social activism and the human heart—hese vivid memories reflect a poignant and comic sense of life. Narrated with compelling honesty, sensitivity and infectious humor, they conjure not only a colorful image of years gone by, but also hint hauntingly of the City's evolving destiny.

Will French mainstream political parties and republican institutions survive extreme religious and racist movements on the right and left in the future? This short political history of France since the 1960s examines the impact of student revolts, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Algerian fundamentalists, and demographic and generational changes to define critical issues at the center of political debate in France today. Political scientists, historians, scholars in French studies, business people concerned with France, and general readers will benefit from this analysis of the contemporary French political scene.