Used Book - Nos délits d'initiés: Mes soupçons de citoyen, Guy Birenbaum

"There are two hundred, three hundred, or five hundred of us initiates. Our precise number matters little. From our positions in influential circles, we believe we are shaping, fabricating, and polishing public opinion. We see what's coming. We anticipate. Oh, of course, none of us predicted – publicly at least – Lionel Jospin's first-round elimination.

But despite – or because of – this fatal error of judgment, we are intelligent enough, even lucid enough, to tell you what lessons to learn and what choices to make.

We therefore advised you, from our position of moral authority, to "drown Chirac in votes." He will then understand that his election does not belong to him. He will be our principal debtor. He will owe us everything, and then some. We are journalists, columnists, publishers, politicians, intellectuals, bosses, networkers, shadow advisors, communicators; we are wives of, sons of, close to, lovers of...

We sort what is good for you and what you need to know.

We dictate what you should do. It has been this way for ages, and there's no reason for it to change."

Today, this book will change habits. Against neo-populism and to combat the feeling of deceit that has taken hold in the minds of all French people, there is only one path: that of TRUTH. And the truth is ONE: it reconciles private life and public life, words and actions.

Private life, public life. Hidden mistresses. Parties of four. Secret funds, false bottoms. State crimes. Screens and smoke screens. Counter-fires. Wiretaps, big ears, braces, strings. Orders from above. Radio silence.

It is in the name of a certain idea of democracy that Guy Birenbaum has decided to no longer keep silent about what he knows, to reveal all these secrets that the power's initiates have held for so long.