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Title: Very Readable and Balanced, Too
Review: When I picked up this book I thought it was going to be a biased screed. It isn't.Instead, it's a lively popular history of American relations with France going back before independence. Although its predominant theme is French vanity and hostility, it presents the good with the bad.There are things in the book I didn't know about, like the "quasi-war" with France shortly after independence, and the shooting war with Vichy in North Africa, and good summaries of things like France's efforts to retain its colonial empire (a bit of which they still cling too, like French Polynesia).French support for the War of Independence is put in perspective, as is the connection between France's defeat by the Haitian revolt, Napoeleon's ambitions, and the Louisiana Purchase.All in all, a readable popular history and a realistic look at France's relations with us.
