Richard J. Golsan is a professor of French and the head of the Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A & M University. He is editor of the South Central Review and author of Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction (Routledge, 1993, 2001) and Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Golsan provides crucial lessons on both the necessity and the dangers of political action. Choice 2006 His intellectual honesty, scrupulous commitment to critical fairness, and determination 'to avoid the twin dangers of demonization and apology' places him at the antipodes of the partisan ideologues whose blindness and complicity with evil he documents in a dispassionate, elegant, and compelling voice. H-France 2007 Golsan's fine essays are a window into twentieth-century French intellectual life. -- Donald Reid International History Review 2007 Golsan's ideas are closely argued throughout and cast interesting new light. -- Angela Kimyongur Modern Language Review 2007 An intriguing contribution to the ongoing debates on the past and the present state of the French Republic of Letters. -- Thomas Nolden Shofar 2007 A thought provoking and well-researched new book... Will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, especially those interested in the major currents of French intellectual history. -- Andrew Sobanet Substance 2009

Richard J. Golsan is a professor of French and the head of the Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A & M University. He is editor of the South Central Review and author of Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction (Routledge, 1993, 2001) and Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Golsan provides crucial lessons on both the necessity and the dangers of political action. Choice 2006 His intellectual honesty, scrupulous commitment to critical fairness, and determination 'to avoid the twin dangers of demonization and apology' places him at the antipodes of the partisan ideologues whose blindness and complicity with evil he documents in a dispassionate, elegant, and compelling voice. H-France 2007 Golsan's fine essays are a window into twentieth-century French intellectual life. -- Donald Reid International History Review 2007 Golsan's ideas are closely argued throughout and cast interesting new light. -- Angela Kimyongur Modern Language Review 2007 An intriguing contribution to the ongoing debates on the past and the present state of the French Republic of Letters. -- Thomas Nolden Shofar 2007 A thought provoking and well-researched new book... Will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, especially those interested in the major currents of French intellectual history. -- Andrew Sobanet Substance 2009

Richard J. Golsan is a professor of French and the head of the Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A & M University. He is editor of the South Central Review and author of Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction (Routledge, 1993, 2001) and Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Golsan provides crucial lessons on both the necessity and the dangers of political action. Choice 2006 His intellectual honesty, scrupulous commitment to critical fairness, and determination 'to avoid the twin dangers of demonization and apology' places him at the antipodes of the partisan ideologues whose blindness and complicity with evil he documents in a dispassionate, elegant, and compelling voice. H-France 2007 Golsan's fine essays are a window into twentieth-century French intellectual life. -- Donald Reid International History Review 2007 Golsan's ideas are closely argued throughout and cast interesting new light. -- Angela Kimyongur Modern Language Review 2007 An intriguing contribution to the ongoing debates on the past and the present state of the French Republic of Letters. -- Thomas Nolden Shofar 2007 A thought provoking and well-researched new book... Will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, especially those interested in the major currents of French intellectual history. -- Andrew Sobanet Substance 2009