{"id":19240,"date":"2020-02-19T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=19240"},"modified":"2020-02-19T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:07:23","slug":"a-certain-idea-of-france-the-life-of-charles-de-gaulle-by-julian-jackson-the-winner-of-the-2019-elizabeth-longford-prize-for-historical-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=19240","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle\u201d by Julian Jackson \u2013 the winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knjiga Juliana Jacksona o \u017eivotu Charlesa de Gaullea “A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle” dobila je 2019. godine nagradu za povijesnu biografiju.<\/p>\n

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Winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

8 May 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The Society of Authors is delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Julian Jackson\u00a0<\/strong>(Allen Lane).<\/p>\n

On winning the prize,\u00a0Julian Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very honoured to join the previous illustrious winners of this prize. I am glad also that this will make the extraordinary career of Charles de Gaulle better known in the United Kingdom \u2013 not just as the leader of the Free French in London after 1940 (where his clashes with Churchill have become legendary) and for twice vetoing British entry to the European Community (1963, 1967) but also as the most extraordinary French political leader since Napoleon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Established in 2003 in affectionate memory of Elizabeth Longford, the acclaimed biographer, and sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros, the prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.<\/p>\n

The judges this year are Richard Davenport-Hines, Roy Foster (Chair), Antonia Fraser, Flora Fraser, and Rana Mitter.<\/p>\n

Commenting on this year\u2019s winner, the Chair of Judges, Roy Foster said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOut of a powerful shortlist of books about people who changed the world around them through force of character and sense of the zeitgeist, the judges unanimously selected <\/em>Julian Jackson\u2019s A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle.<\/em><\/strong> At this moment in history, any work that enriches our understanding of the culture of Britain\u2019s nearest neighbour in Europe must have profound claims on our attention. But <\/em>A Certain Idea of France<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0does far more. It draws an unforgettable portrait of a divisive, awkward, self-contradictory but immensely impressive figure, and does so with empathy, deep scholarship and shafts of enlivening Gallic wit. Jackson\u2019s de Gaulle epitomises the untranslatable French concepts of gloire and grandeur; but his biography is also a riveting profile of a figure whose private life, personal sadnesses, unpredictable intellectual passions and achievements, and astounding qualities of perseverance made him truly a \u2018great man\u2019, albeit a uniquely exasperating one. <\/em><\/p>\n

“Though a long book, based on enormous archival research, it is compulsively readable throughout. Above all, Julian Jackson profoundly and quizzically examines the concepts of patriotism, nationalism and colonialism, through world war and uneasy peace, while unswervingly focussing on a single extraordinary life. <\/em>A Certain Idea of France<\/em><\/strong> conclusively demonstrates the value of historical biography at its best, achieving exactly what the Elizabeth Longford Prize exists to recognise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The three titles also shortlisted<\/a> this year are:<\/p>\n