Used book – Un pouvoir nommé désir: Biography, Catherine Nay

Those who have been observing Nicolas Sarkozy's resistible rise for the past thirty years never stop asking themselves: where does this political athlete's extraordinary energy come from? What secret lies deep within his furious obstinacy? Is he fighting for his country? For himself?

To answer these questions, Catherine Nay - an expert on political heavyweights, from Mitterrand to Giscard and Chirac - chose to explore in every direction the biography of this child of the 1950s.

Between Neuilly and Place Beauvau, from Dadu his mother to Cécilia his wife, from his Hungarian father to his opportunistic parricides, from Pasqua to Villepin, here is the true story of his life.