Used book – Le Président et moi, Philippe Ridet

"This book tells an extraordinary story. That of a man who wanted to become President. From the steps of this dazzling rise, marked by intrigues and conspiracies that sometimes went unnoticed, I wanted to miss nothing, neither the accessory 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 midst of his small entourage? Call him by his first name like a friend he is not? 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, but always instructive about how we are governed."

Philippe Ridet.

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