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Any recommendations on a good book-length account of the Dreyfus Affair? I've read the chapter in Tuchman's Proud Tower. I've always loved her books, but this is just a short chapter in a longer book. (I also read Shirer's Third Republic, but that was so long ago I don't remember. It was just a chapter also.)

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Bredin's 1983 The Affair is really seen as the most thorough account. My favourite reading of the affair is actually In Search of Lost Time, as Proust shows the split in society during this period over the second and third (perhaps the fourth too I think?) volumes.

Thanks. I might have to check out Bredin

(Proust, at 4k pages, is perhaps too long! :-) But I appreciate the recommendation. That split in society was emphasized by Tuchman, as I recall.)

It's not too long. :)

Proust is shorter than "The War of the Roses, WITH DRAGONS!", and plenty of people have ploughed through that.

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