Bourguiba in Bourguiba's tongue

As much as the value of this book for researchers in the history of modern Tunisia, it also offers the ordinary reader a rich testimony from a man who remains one of the most important political actors and influencers in events, even in his absence, for sixty years... It is a unique experience, or nearly so, deserving of attention, study, and research... In this testimony, Bourguiba begins to narrate the events Tunisia experienced since the end of the nineteenth century and their impact on him and his family as a miniature model of Tunisian society, until reaching the stage of building the national state, passing through the period of struggle for independence... It is a testimony to the era — the era of Tunisia and the era of the world...