sentences:  The book also revealed for the first time the existence of homosexual correspondence in the prosecution case.Reflecting the intense interest in social history that gripped historians since the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Cahm wrote "The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics" (1996), an analysis of the sociology of the Affair.Michael Burns, "Rural Society and French Politics, Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, 1886–1900" (1984) does the same in a more limited fashion.