John Jay

Constructed through diary entries and conversations writer John Jay had with the protagonist before she died, Ninette''s War charts her high society family''s fall from grace as they grapple with the hostility of their country - a France that had welcomed previous generations with open arms as the first European country to emancipate its Jewish people. Ninette''s testimony is compelling, heart wrenching and sincere as she chronicles her family''s slow realisation of antisemitism and Nazi-collaboration from the Vichy government - led by former first world war hero Philippe Pétain, as he works to brutalise and legislate Jews out to the margins of society and towards death through Nazi rhetoric. Tracing the frailty of national pride through the eyes of a young girl, this is Ninette''s War told in heart-breaking detail.

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''A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.''In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens of New York State to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution; together they were convinced of the need to weld thirteen disparate and newly-independent states into a union. Their essays make the case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day.The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers who created the United States, and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This new edition pays full attention to the classical learning of their authors and the historical examples they deploy. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

THE TIMES NON-FICTION RECOMMENDED READ ''Chillingly relevant'' DAILY MAIL''Evocative, assiduously researched ... one girl''s wartime escape [and] a brutal reckoning with Vichy France''s wilful complicity in wartime atrocities'' SUNDAY TIMES''Meticulously researched with an inimitable richness, depth and levity'' NEW STATESMAN''A deeply researched and evocative true story'' ANNE SEBBANinette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France''s most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World War broke out and the Germans occupied Paris, the fall was dramatic. Realising that her fate would be transformed, the teenager soon found herself fleeing the capital for the South, only to then fall prey to the Vichy regime. In fear for her life at the hands of the Nazis and their French collaborators, she became somebody else.Woven together from Ninette''s own diaries and interviews with author John Jay before she died, NINETTE''S WAR traces the frailty of national and personal unity through the eyes of a young woman, in compelling and unforgettable detail.