Timothy Johnson

Books Reviewed in this Essay: Albert Camus. Algerian Chronicles. Edited by Alice Kaplan. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pierre Bourdieu. Algerian Sketches. Edited and Presented by Tassadit Yacine. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Polity Press, 2013.   The Algerian War is misleadingly emblematic of the history of French decolonization. France’s…