About France (Or, Why the French are So French)
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In this collection of articles, the veteran international journalist Joseph Harriss provides profiles and analysis of French icons and institutions ranging from the Académie Française and the Foreign Legion, to the Concorde supersonic airliner and the Crazy Horse Saloon. With a lively mix of wit and insight, he also explores national quirks such as the French passion for astrology, the wholesale adoption of English words, and the nation's quixotic fixation on the past. The result is an idiosyncratic, often provocative take on France by a perceptive writer with an eye for ironic detail.
Joseph Harriss
After graduation from the University of Notre Dame, Joseph Harriss studied French and international relations at the Sorbonne and Institut d'Études Politiques before joining the Paris bureau of Time magazine. Besides covering French affairs from politics and economics to couture and cuisine, he also reported from Algiers and Brussels and wrote for the magazine in the New York headquarters. He later joined the international editions of Reader's Digest and covered Western Europe as a roving correspondent based, again, in Paris. Besides that, he has done articles and columns for a number of publications, such as The Dallas Morning News, Smithsonian magazine, and The American Spectator. He lives in Paris.
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