Revolution
About this audiobook
The bestselling memoir by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron
Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilization is being wiped out. That only withdrawal or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect ourselves from the great transformations taking place around the globe, we should go back in time and apply the recipes of last century.
Others imagine that France can continue on its slow downward slide. That the game of political juggling―first the Left, then the Right―will allow us breathing space. The same faces and the same people who have been around for so long.
I am convinced that they are all wrong. It is their models, their recipes, that have simply failed. France as a whole has not failed.
In Revolution, Emmanuel Macron, the youngest president in the history of France, reveals his personal story and his inspirations and discusses his vision of France and its future in a new world that is undergoing a “great transformation” that has not been experienced since the invention of the printing press and the Renaissance.
This is a remarkable book that seeks to lay the foundations for a new society—a compelling testimony and statement of values by an important political leader who has become the flag-bearer for a new kind of politics.
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About the author
Emmanuel Macron was born in Amiens, France, in 1977. After graduating from the École Nationale d’Administration in 2004, he worked as an inspector in the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. He was appointed minister of economy, industry, and digital affairs in François Hollande’s government in 2014 and resigned in 2016 to launch the political party En Marche! as part of his candidacy for the 2017 presidential election. He won the election in May 2017 with sixty-six percent of the vote, defeating National Front candidate Marine Le Pen.
Jonathan Goldberg is a Los Angeles–based, South African–born translator and retired lawyer who describes himself as an avid Francophile. He has a diploma in French civilization from the Sorbonne and runs a blog, Le mot juste en anglais, which addresses subjects at the interface of English and French as well as related cultural matters.
Juliette Scott has been a translation and language specialist for over twenty-five years. She has a PhD in translation studies from Bristol University, runs her own translation business in Portsmouth, England, and is an active member of Kiva, a micro-loan organization that supports entrepreneurship and self-help in developing countries and those affected by war and poverty.
Jean Brassard is a theater and television actor, singer, voice-over talent, audiobook narrator, and writer. He is the winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.
