Francophiles & Francophobes - Books & Culture

re: Otto Selles writes, "...To explore this Francophile-Francophobe dichotomy, I followed the fancy of Amazon.com recommendations and made my way through some thirty books, of which I feature a representative selection.2 I deliberately chose trade books, those published for a general audience, over specialized academic studies and textbooks on French history and culture. I am interested in what writers and publishers think the general public would like to read about France, especially when it involves an expatriate's opinion of its culture. My interest in such books comes out of the years I spent in France as an expatriate—first as an English teacher and doctoral student in Paris, and most recently as a director of a study-abroad program in Grenoble..."...