The Americanization of France: Searching for Happiness after the Algerian War

by Barnett Singer

This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clich s about modern France: first, that the country has never been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. The end of the war led to an important sea change, clearing the way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442221658
• ISBN13: 9781442221659
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"