Used Book – Off: Ce que Nicolas Sarkozy n'aurait jamais dû nous dire, Maurice Szafran, Nicolas Domenach

Sarkozy, again? No: Sarkozy, at last!

In journalistic jargon, "off the record" refers to everything that should never be said, written, described, or revealed: when official statements give way to shared secrets or personal confidences, it is understood that the witness must put down their pen, tape recorder, or camera.

This book begins precisely where others end: Nicolas Sarkozy having transgressed the law of presidential embodiment, the authors are freed from the law of silence. They abandon the connivance woven by thirty years of acquaintance to give us the vivid spectacle of a man as he truly is: as he has never been seen, never heard, never imagined.

The violence of his outbursts as well as the warmth of a gesture or a word, his inner scars as well as the convictions of a lifetime or a moment, his confessed doubts as well as his boasted certainties, his rage as well as his charm: this is a "raw" Sarkozy that two men who know everything about the cruelty of the political world offer us here.

Nicolas Domenach, deputy editorial director of Marianne, is also a columnist for Edition Spécial on Canal+ and on i>Télé.

Maurice Szafran is the CEO of Marianne.

Their jointly written books, notably De si bons amis, have been considerable publishing successes and have established them as leading political journalist-writers.