The Duodecimo · 1926 · restored 2025

Demosthenes

Georges Clémenceau — Clémenceau wrote this book after his own war was won, turning to the story of a man whose war was lost.

Clémenceau wrote this book after his own war was won, turning to the story of a man whose war was lost. Demosthenes spent his life trying to rally Athens against Macedonian conquest and failed. Clémenceau sees in him not a failure but the highest ideal of the statesman: one who speaks truth to a people who do not wish to hear it. The parallel to 1914-1918 is never stated but everywhere implied.

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Clémenceau, Georges. Demosthenes (1926). Bulkington Books, 2025.