Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French
Bernstein maintains that the French, contrary to their reputation for smugness, are actually shy, elegant and formal people with an anarchic streak and a devotion to pleasure. "This well-rounded portrait of France today is a spirited introduction to a prosperous, complacent, Americanized people whom modernity has 'leached out of their particularity,' " said PW.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.