Through English Eyes

December 2: “Many a visitor to America has remarked on the astonishing gap between its politics and its people. The latter are for the most part far more congenial…”  

The Dream Maker

Jean-Christophe Rufin’s novel brings to vivid life the exemplary career of a little known medieval paragon:  Jacques Coeur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glory that was France.