Book description
>The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of
an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding
routine, of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders
such as Helmut Schmidt, Valry Giscard d Estaing, James Callaghan,
Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter.
In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes
unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations,
from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric
and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His
subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for
example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and
yet notably constructive, and Giscard d Estaing, highly intelligent but
with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous.
For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact
of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events,
European Diary
is compulsory reading.> >The diary provides a picture of the
day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the
conflicting pressures and grinding routine, of the importance of
personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valry
Giscard d Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt,
Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter.
In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes
unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations,
from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric
and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His
subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for
example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and
yet notably constructive, and Giscard d Estaing, highly intelligent but
with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous.
For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact
of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events,
European Diary
is compulsory reading.>
