A writer primarily

After the 430 pages of the book closed, one can not help but wonder what Bruno Lemaire went to do in this government (alongside unforgettable Morano, Cope and Lefebvre, among others) as what emerges from this reading is the fact that man is above all a man of letters. No wonder, from there, as it is found published in the white collection of Gallimard, a rare honor for a fleeting memories (2010 to 2012), Minister of Agriculture.

This is a rather wry observation that Lemaire book about his position as a politician ("The hand that rules no longer fires the tricks of capitalism, it still takes just one or two, and if it does not alert to his choices, tomorrow it will be the puppet, and capitalism by hand. A day will come when companies, foreign bosses, pension funds, investors say "Be!" and we execute "), and more, on the future of Europe as it has been built in recent years ultraliberal and detached from the people. Lemaire takes the stage, battling in the G20 against the volatility of agricultural prices or escrimant in Brussels over fishing quotas, without glory too much, it recognizes, on numerous occasions, he has no weight. Humble as when he evokes, repeatedly, his wife and son 4: Given, for example, from Kenya, three days after the birth of the latter, it does not fail to question his role as father.

But it is above all his fascination with Nicolas Sarkozy (a man "more complex" than its "cartoon") emerges from his notes, completely failing to return to the shallows of the power or the general atmosphere prevailing in the end courses on the (lower) court UMP. Not any of that in this personal book, UFO political literature, as others are already loaded it would be useless. Just a brilliant feather struggling with his doubts.

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