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13 February 2004
book rec: sixty million frenchmen can't be wrong
In between class reading and other work I've been sneaking in chapters of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow. Very interesting, and far more thoughtful than most of the studies I've read, many of which focus on a particular element of French society, or seem to stem from a here's-what's-wrong perspective rather than a why-is-it-so perspective. What started out as a fairly academic investigation of French attitudes toward globalization ended up being a very broad examination of the fundamentals of French society, and a highly readable one at that.