Occasion – The President and I - Philippe Ridet

Author(s): Philippe Ridet Publisher: Albin Michel Publication: 02/04/2008 Number of pages: 232 Number of books: 1 Weight: 330 Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 EAN: 9782226183903 Summary:

This book tells an extraordinary story. That of a man who wanted to become president. From the stages of this meteoric rise marked by intrigues and conspiracies that sometimes went unnoticed, I wanted to miss nothing, neither the trivial nor the essential. Neither the detail nor the perspective. As an "embedded" journalist - embedded as war correspondents are called - I saw the showman behind the candidate, the actor behind the president. Sometimes I perceived his sincerity in the comedy of power. Should I, for that, sing Joe Dassin with him one evening on the terrace of a restaurant in La Baule in the middle of his small entourage? Should I address him informally like a friend he is not? Should I agree to dine with Cécilia as he suggested? Complicity or advanced art of camouflage, I did not decide. Embedded or ambushed, must one choose? In any case, I wanted to tell everything I saw. It is often violent, always instructive about how we are governed." Philippe Ridet