Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with Franceby John J. Miller; Mark Molesky

✍ Scribed by Review by: Stanley Hoffmann

• Book ID: 125243008
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20034171

✦ Synopsis

Franco-American relations. way of organizing life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not necessarily the best (even if some of Rifkin's musings on "the third stage of human consciousness" are a bit windy). Riflin is no starry-eyed idealist-he questions the "thickness" of the European dream and the persistence of European cynicism-and he has studied Europe seriously and with an open mind. His book deserves to be read. Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the We(fare State. BY PATRICK IRELAND. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, 288 pp. $27.95. This is a remarkable treatment of Muslim, Turkish, and North African immigration and integration in western Europe, and of attendant changes in welfare policy. By examining in detail eight cities in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands with long