Amerloques
Eugen Weber, 10 March 1994
Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanisation
by Richard Kuisel.
California, 309 pp., £20, April 1993,0 520 07962 0 Show More
by Richard Kuisel.
California, 309 pp., £20, April 1993,
“... The French, Janet Flanner wrote in the New Yorker, were tired of being occupied; which is where Kuisel’s story begins. Americans were resented more widely and openly than they had ever been; so was the creeping reality of Americanisation. But since the French projected onto America their fears as much as their hopes for France, investigating their ... ”
