Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France - Softcover

Callil, Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307279251 ISBN 13: 9780307279255

Publisher: Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs" in France's Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen Callil's riveting and sometimes darkly comic narrative reveals Darquier as a self-obsessed fantasist who found his metier in propagating hatred--a career he denied to his dying day--and traces the heartrending consequences for his daughter Anne of her poisoned family legacy. A brilliant meld of epic sweep and psychological insight, Bad Faith is a startling history of our times.

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Review:

"Astonishing, riveting, and elegantly written. . . . A brilliant performance in sweeping history, scrupulous biography, and tender psychology." --The Boston Globe"Darquier [was] one of the monsters of French history. . . . [Callil's] account of France's descent into the anti-Semitic maelstrom is dramatic." --The New York Times Book Review"Callil has written a fascinating book about this monster. . . . Bad Faith is an often moving book, as well as an improbably funny one--a study of awfulness made unexpectedly poignant by the author's own stake in the subject." --Harper's"Much more than the story of one family's dark secrets. This book becomes a quietly devastating history of Vichy France's anti-Semitic machinations." --The New York Times

From the Publisher:

The story of one of history's most despicable villians told by a brilliant author

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307279251
• ISBN 13: 9780307279255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672