Used book – La Dame des 35 heures, Philippe Alexandre, Béatrix de L'Aulnoit

A scathing pamphlet about the most ambitious female politician of her generation.

To everyone, she is "Martine." Feisty, she has a sharp tongue, she makes people laugh. And no one in the world is spared. "Worthless" are the journalists, right-wing MPs, major French bosses, union leaders, civil servants... And even her advisors who, at the ministry, are afraid to submit a file to her. She reigns at the top of the polls. Unlike her father, Jacques Delors, she already sees herself in Matignon or the Elysée Palace. Didn't she give France the 35-hour work week? Yes, but she also fooled the bosses and rekindled the class struggle. Minister Aubry achieved an unprecedented feat: the unions are on the barricades with their adversaries. The CGT, CFDT, and FO do not forgive her for the "contempt" she shows for social partners, and are concerned about the two-hundred-billion-euro bill that employees and taxpayers will have to share. From her role within the Socialist Party to the mixed results of her time in government, from her relationships with Pierre Mauroy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or Ernest-Antoine Seillière to her election as mayor of Lille... Philippe Alexandre and Béatrix de l'Aulnoit reveal the downsides of Martine Aubry's dazzling and spectacular rise.