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Title: APOLOGY
Review: John Keiger's biography of Raymond Poincare is an unrelieved litany of lugubrious praise in the earlier style of Pierre Renouvin and Poincare's own memoirs. Keiger has no problem with Poincare's collaboration with Alexander Isvolsky, the Russian Ambassador in Paris. He has no trouble with Poincare's secret encouragement of Russia and his counsel of "firmness" during the July Crisis of 1914, which could have only one outcome: a European war. John Keiger's fulsome paean of praise will please admirers of Raymond Poincare. Lovers of historical truth should not waste their time.
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