Anti-Americanism - Jean-Francois Revel Audiobook

Written by Jean-Francois Revel
Read by Christopher Lane
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

After the September 11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon gave way to blame. In Europe and elsewhere, it was said that America had brought the violence upon itself, that it was a “cowboy” nation bent on pursuing its objectives at any cost, a “hyperpower” whose riches were acquired at the price of Third World impoverishment. No wonder it had been attacked!Angered by these assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America’s defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that-paradoxically, given his country’s especially vehement attack on the United States-spent several weeks last year at the top of France’s best-seller list.