Employing a poetics of culture to capture the complex atmospherics of 1930s Paris, the authors have produced something closer to the format of an illustrated newspaper than a straight story of the Popular Front. The book's multiple columns represent the breadth of urban life during this critical decade at the end of the Third French Republic.Employing a poetics of culture to capture the complex atmospherics of 1930s Paris, the authors have produced something closer to the format of an illustrated newspaper than a straight story of the Popular Front. The book's multiple columns represent the breadth of urban life during this critical decade at the end of the Third French Republic. Nominated for George L. Mosse Prize 2006 and Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award 2006 and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies 2005 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2006 and Arthur Ross Book Award 2006 and J. David Greenstone Book Prize 2006 and David H. Pinkney Prize 2005 and Best Book Award in European Politics and Society 2006 and J. Russell Major Prize 2006.