Author: Robert Zaretsky

A new history of modern France built around five innovative features that reviewers strongly support. The text will maintain the 'traditional' nar...

Known as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who tr...

A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it wi...

Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his e...