In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a rising star on the French General Staff, was accused of spying for Germany. The evidence pointing to Dreyfus was flimsy and his accusers could come up with no reasonable motive, but Dreyfus was a Jewish outsider in an army dominated by Catholics, and in a country where virulent anti-Semitism was a powerful political force. He was convicted by a (...)
October 20, 2010
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Unpredictable Alliances
DreyfusPolitics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century Ruth HarrisMetropolitan Books, $35, 560 pp.
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