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Anti-Americanism - Jean-Francois Revel (CD)
Title: R is for Ricochet Title: Anti-Americanism Author: Jean-Francois Revel Genre: Political / Current Events Format: 6 CDs, 7 1/2 Hrs (Unabridged) Synopsis: After the 9/11 attack, a wave of sympathy for the United States quickly receded and gave way to blame. In France and other quarters of Europe, it was said that the Americans had brought this violence upon themselves by inhabiting a "cowboy" country whose corporations manipulated world markets and whose riches were acquired at the price of Third World impoverishment. Angered by the accusations against a nation he knows and esteems, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism. Revel believes that what he calls the "anti-American obsession" is based on a willful disregard of the most obvious facts of American political and social life: its economic freedom and democratic traditions. He argues that the European charges against America -- that it is imperialistic, greedy and ruthlessly competitive -- ultimately stem from weakness and envy, and are a neurotic effort to find an easy explanation for Europe's own loss of status in the postwar era. Regarding America's "unilateralism," Revel asserts that the U.S. is forced to act alone because Europe has repeatedly failed to act at all in the cause of collective security. As for America's sins of "globalization," Revel shows that the developing countries of the world want more, not less access to rich markets and corporate investment. Reviews: John Parker - Asia Times ...Revel has chosen to confront directly not only in this volume, but in several earlier books that touched on the issue the entrenched anti-Americanism of an entire generation of European intellectuals, particularly French ones.... Anti-Americanism [is] a necessary antidote to the poisonous torrent of crude, atavistic anti-US hatred that spews forth daily from newspapers, magazines, and websites around the world.... Monsieur Revel's book is truly a breath of fresh air. I only wish I had written it. Library Journal With a title like this, and a French author, many readers will assume that this is yet another anti-American diatribe fueled by the war in Iraq. However, Revel (Without Marx or Jesus; Democracy Against Itself), a longtime eloquent advocate of American power and policies, has sounded a consistent three-part theme: liberalism will turn out to be the greatest revolution of the 20th century, "the principle function of anti-Americanism has always been . . . to discredit liberalism," and the United States has usurped Europe as the leader of the world but is not an evil empire. In this new book, written and published in France in 2002, Revel provides more examples of the "intrinsically contradictory character of passionate anti-Americanism" as practiced in Europe before and after the September 11 attacks. Revel skillfully dismantles false assumptions, outmoded theories, and outright lies-from both th