The Rise and Fall of Anti-Americanism: A Century of French Perception

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: France Bewitched by America....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
The Pathology of Anti-Americanism....Pages 35-41
From Baudelaire to Duhamel: An Unlikely Antipathy....Pages 42-54
Anti-Americanism in the Years of Collaboration and Resistance....Pages 55-66
The Cold War....Pages 67-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Images of the United States in Public Opinion....Pages 79-96
The French Intelligentsia Rediscovers America....Pages 97-107
Anti-Americanism and the Elite....Pages 108-115
Sartre, Beauvoir, Aron: An Ambiguous Affair....Pages 116-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Managerially Yours....Pages 137-142
Modernists and Protectionists: The 1970s....Pages 143-159
The Limits of the American Model....Pages 160-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
French Anti-Americanism under the Fourth Republic and the Gaullist Solution....Pages 169-178
Unruly France....Pages 179-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Lawyers’ Verdict....Pages 189-204
The Fifth Republic and the American Model....Pages 205-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
United States: Model or Bête Noire?....Pages 213-218
Does Anti-Americanism Exist?....Pages 219-235
By Way of Conclusion....Pages 236-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-258