Publisher's Synopsis
The "real America" is not to be found here. It is rather America as a product of the French people's collective imagination, a model or a "bete noire", which helps reveal their different moods, passions and delusions. The turmoil of pro- and anti-American attitudes, the sudden shifts in public opinion, the ambiguity of certain judgments, all reveal the turbulent evolution of 20th century France. France used to be Europe's leading critic of America; today, paradoxically, with the collapse of Gaullism and (French) Communism, it has become America's best friend.
