Just say non.(Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France)(Book Review)

National Review | November 8, 2004| | Copyright

Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky (Doubleday, 304 pp., $24.95)

WHY are relations between France and the United States so bad these days? After reading this book, one might be excused for wondering when they were ever good. Certainly not since the American Revolution, is the final verdict, and not really even then.

Our Oldest Enemy, a collaboration between NATIONAL REVIEW's John Miller and historian Mark Molesky, is popular revisionist history in the best sense, a reexamination of ...

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