Anti-Americanism

Angered by the shrill polemics against a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French writer Jean-Francois Revel comes to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that spent several weeks on top of the French bestseller list. Revel probes the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil: imperialistic, greedy, ruthlessly competitive--a hyperpower whose riches are acquired at the expense of the Third World. He finds the roots of these charges in the weakness and envy of those who make them, and he criticizes the legions of propagandists and pseudo-intellectuals who make a living on America-bashing.