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Peter Hitchens reviews Jean-François Revel's Anti-Americanism. Quotable:

Living amidst [the anti-American ravings of French "intellectuals"], simultaneously pretentious and offensive to any well-tuned mind, it is easy to understand why the good Jean-François finds it hard to accept any criticisms of the USA. Condemnation from such curdled brains and such flapping mouths almost always amounts to praise. But that is what is wrong with this otherwise excellent and lucid book. It cannot recognize that a criticism of the USA may be true even though a French leftist has made it ...