Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

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AuthorBarlow, Julie,Nadeau, Jean
PublisherSourcebooks
Bindingpaperback
PublishedSeptember 25, 2003
Edition1st (first)
LanguageEnglish
Pages320
ISBN-101402200455
ISBN-139781402200458
Weight1.06 lb
Dimensions
H × W × L
1.22 in × 6.02 in × 7.95 in

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

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"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy, and language, and more, the authors weave together the threads of French society for a fresh take on a country that no one can seem to understand. Library Journal In 1999, freelance bilingual Canadian journalists Nadeau and Barlow traveled to France under the...

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"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why."
--Wall Street Journal
Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy, and language, and more, the authors weave together the threads of French society for a fresh take on a country that no one can seem to understand.

Library Journal

In 1999, freelance bilingual Canadian journalists Nadeau and Barlow traveled to France under the auspices of the Institute of Current World Affairs. Their goal? To determine how France has been coping with the new forces of globalization and modern times in general. The product of their effort is a wide-ranging discussion of the French character and how it has changed since World War II. Their overwhelming generalizations are based mostly on conversations with a variety of sources from seat companions on transatlantic flights to high-level government and business officials. The authors' intent "is not a history of France. Neither is it a specialized study of sociology, demography, political theory, or economics. [It] is a study of France." Therein lies the problem: the approach is so inclusive that any reader, except those quite familiar with France, will have a hard time understanding what Nadeau and Barlow are trying to convey. Unfortunately, neither an index nor a bibliography is provided. Readers may find more satisfaction in Julian Barnes's Something To Declare: Essays on France. Not recommended.-Olga B. Wise, Austin, TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.


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