Adieu France, 'allo land of the free - Review - Times Online:
"On the Left Bank of the Seine, the smoke of Gauloises and rays of warm autumnal sunshine merrily entwine in a cafe made famous by Sartre and Camus. Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s most celebrated thinker, has dispensed with lunch and hungrily moves on to the main course: America.
Typical, I see you shrug: a Frenchman making mincemeat of “les cowboys”, as predictable as the Prince of Wales grousing about his hard-boiled eggs. Except BHL lauds America — with a reverence his countrymen normally reserve for snails in garlic sauce or sex in the afternoon. Even neocons — so reviled one almost inserts asterisks in their name — he praises as “angels” who represent “progress”.
His book American Vertigo, a travelogue from his “year in a country I love, that can never be boring”, has caused a sensation Stateside. It is the first French translation to top US bestseller lists for two decades and has just been updated for publication in Britain. "
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