Abstract

Introduction: France bewitched by America, Denis Lacorne and Jacques Rupnik. Part 1 The origins of anti-Americanism - history and hysteria: the pathology of anti-Americanism, Theodore Zeldin from Baudelaire to Duhamel - an unlikely antipathy, Pascal Ory anti-Americanism in the years of Collaboration and resistance, Robert O.Paxton the Cold War, Michel Winock. Part 2 The behaviour of the intelligentsia and their influence on public opinion: images of the United States in Public Opinion, Jacques Rupnik and Muriel Humbertjean the French intelligentsia rediscovers America, Diana Pinto anti-Americanism and the elite, Ezra N.Suleiman Sartre, Beauvoir, Aron - an ambigious affair, Marie-Christine Granjon. Part 3 Economy - dream of modernity: managerially yours, Richard Armand modernists and protectionists - the 1970s, Denis Lacorne the limits of the American model, Christian Stoffaes. Part 4 Rhetoric and reality of anti-Americanism in foreign politics: French anti-Americanism under the Fourth Republic and the Gaullist Solution, Michael M.Harrison unruly France, Alfred Grosser. Part 5 The US constitution - model or mimic?: the lawyer's verdict, Marie-France Toinet. Part 6 Why anti-Americanism is not always quite what it seems, nor Americano-philes quite what they say: United States - model or bete noire?, Guy Sorman does anti-Americanism exist?, Marie-France Toinet by way of conclusion, Andre Kaspi.

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