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Title: Without Marx or Jesus by Jean-Francois Revel ISBN: 0-440-59729-3 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: August, 1972 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $2.65 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Frenchman who - gasp! - likes America
Comment: This is a wonderful book about the US during the turmoil of the 1960s and early 1970s. It makes many of the same points that "Greening AMerica" did, but from the perspective of a European. Revel believed (rightly in my opinion) that the US was engaged in a fundamental experiment of the kind of society it wanted to be, an impetus coming from the bottom rather than from the top elite. He took a sympathetic view of the youth revolt in the US, which he saw as far less ideological than their counterparts elsewhere and hence more open-minded and practical. He may have been right.
The particlar fun of this book is the way he punctured European, and particularly French, pretentions to hold a monopoly on the progressive left. He applied acid sarcasm and hilarious examples of their prejudices against the US, which sound so petty today. Indeed, he shows them up for the snobs and hypocrits that they still are with great wit.
ALong the way, he makes many points that hit home, such as, it is not what is done that is necessarily most important, but the process and ability to change things democratically that is. That was the great gem of wisdom that I took away from this splendid book, when I read it 23 years ago. Revel's is a unique and talented voice. It is a pity more of his books are not translated nto English. His recent memoire, available only in French, is truly brilliant as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: this book should be re published the soon it's possible
Comment: Innocent people in america should have the opportunity to read" the real revolution that is about to came to the end " Reven is the voice of the last generation of the this century,God send messengers to protect life, after Reven many Angels were born on the fifties and Serafins are and will take care life on Earth.............infinitly.........
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Title: Anti-Americanism by Jean Francois Revel, DIARMID CAMMELL ISBN: 1893554856 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: How Democracies Perish by Jean-Francois Revel ISBN: 0385191200 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean Francois Revel ISBN: 0140048413 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1978 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Monk and the Philosopher : A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard ISBN: 0805211039 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris ISBN: 0743257499 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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