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Anti-Americanism
by Jean-Francois Revel
ISBN: 159403060X
ISBN-13: 9781594030604
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Jean-François Revel, a renowned French critic whose WITHOUT MARX OR JESUS was a bestseller in the United States in the early 1970s, addresses the issue of anti-Americanism among the French (and among the French intelligentsia in particular). Revel takes a conservative position, and accuses the French Left of thinly veiled attacks on capitalism.
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Publisher: Encounter Books
Published date: 2004
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 176
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