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America: the opera: a gun-running French playwright, a transgendered dragoon, and the War of Independence.(A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America)(Book Review)
Harper's Magazine
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October 1, 2005|
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff. Henry Holt, 2005. 488 pages. $30.
French-American antipathy, the stuff of bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic, is at times so perfect in its unpleasantness that the two nations seem even to have found opposite ways of disliking each other: the French, as one wag put it, hate America while liking Americans, whereas Americans, by and large, love France and despise the French. It is in the face of such mutual resentment that the utopian temptation ...
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