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Hoffman, a Harvard professor whose last book was Gulliver's Troubles (1968), makes one chafe at the dullness and ignorance of other political scientists. This group of essays begins with Vichy France, its tangle of traditionalist conservatives and eager fascists, its consequent spectrum of collaboration with Nazi Germany, and also the character of the Resistance and non-resistants pulled together in a critique of Marcel Ophuls' film, The Sorrow and the Pity. When Hoffman moves to the subject of de Gaulle, his strength is the strength he admires in the General -- a reliance on psychological insight as opposed to ideas or techniques of action. The book's treatment of patterns of leadership and change in France explicitly intersect with that of Michael Crozier: the French cycle of blockage and crisis, the fear of declassement. But Hoffman digs far deeper into the muses of ""heroic rule"" outside routine authority, as well as the peculiarity and universality of protest movements in France. The dense but relatively shallow essays on foreign relations offer students of the Fifth Republic new insights into France as the ""initiator of the European-unity process"" and simultaneously its chief obstacle. Hoffman's treatment of l'apres de Gaulle is outdated as regards the programs and correlation of forces among Mitterand, the Communist Party, and the Pompidou gaggle. But the book should be read for its grasp of the past which affords enlightenment well beyond the specific ""decline or renewal"" question. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.