Birnbaum, Pierre. The heights of power : an essay on the power elite in France, with a new postscript, 1981 / Pierre Birnbaum ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982. - xii, 172 p. ; 22 cm. - A Chicago original . Translation of: Les sommets de l'État. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0226052028 (pbk.) : Subjects--Topical Terms: Bureaucracy--History.--FranceElite (Social sciences)--History.--FranceConstitutional history--France. Dewey Class. No.: 354.4401 / BIH 1982