Table of Contents:
  • 1. Approaches to an understanding of modern France / by André Siegfried
  • 2. The decline of the French élan vital: 2. The élan vital of France: a problem in historical perspective / by John B. Wolf
  • 3. The concept of élan vital: a rationalization of weakness / by John Bowditch
  • 4. The desiccation of the bourgeois spirit / by John B. Christopher
  • 3. French letters and science: 5. The French intellectuals: situation and outlook / by Kenneth Douglas
  • 6. Science and French national strength / by Henry E. Guerlac
  • 4. French politics: the shifting coalition of the center: 7. The Third Force, 1870-1896 / by L. Arthur Minnich, Jr. 8. The Third Force, 1897-1939 / by Edward Whiting Fox
  • 9. The Third Force today / by Charles A. Micaud
  • 10. The Christians democrats in modern France / by Robert F. Byrnes
  • 5. French politics: the Left and the Right: 11. The decline of the Socialist Party / by Henry W. Ehrmann
  • 12. The struggle for control of the French trade-union movement, 1945-1949 / by Val R. Lorwin
  • 13. Communists and peasantry in France / by Gordon Wright
  • 14. The communists and the foreign relations of France / by Vernon Van Dyke
  • 15. Gaullism: retrospect and prospect / by H. Stuart Hughes
  • 16. Georges Sorel: apostle of fanaticism / by Scott H. Lytle
  • 6. Social and economic problems in present-day France: 17. Strains in the social structure of modern France / by John E. Sawyer
  • 18. Population and population trends in modern France / by Dudley Kirk
  • 19. French business and the businessman: a social and cultural analysis / by David S. Landes
  • 20. The French experiment in nationalization, 1944-1950 / by David H. Pinkney
  • 21. The French investment program and its relation to resource allocation / by Richard Ruggles
  • 22. The Marshall Plan and French foreign trade / by Warren C. Baum
  • 7. Problems of French security: 23. The military defeat of 1940 in retrospect / by Richard D. Challener
  • 24. Contemporary concepts of French strategy / by Donald J. Harvey
  • 25. Political parties and the French army since liberation / by Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr.
  • 8. France in world affairs: 25. The French empire today / by Ellen Hammer
  • 27. The reliability of France / by Henry Bertram Hill
  • 28. France among the powers / by Fred Latimer Hadsel.