Without Marx or Jesus [Paperback]

Jean-Francois Revel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1972

IH paperback.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Delacorte Pr (August 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440597293
• ISBN-13: 978-0440597292
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,289,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Frenchman who - gasp! - likes America, April 23, 2001

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Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Without Marx or Jesus (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book about the US during the turmoil of the 1960s and early 1970s. It makes many of the same points that "Greening AMerica" did, but from the perspective of a European. Revel believed (rightly in my opinion) that the US was engaged in a fundamental experiment of the kind of society it wanted to be, an impetus coming from the bottom rather than from the top elite. He took a sympathetic view of the youth revolt in the US, which he saw as far less ideological than their counterparts elsewhere and hence more open-minded and practical. He may have been right.

The particlar fun of this book is the way he punctured European, and particularly French, pretentions to hold a monopoly on the progressive left. He applied acid sarcasm and hilarious examples of their prejudices against the US, which sound so petty today. Indeed, he shows them up for the snobs and hypocrits that they still are with great wit.

ALong the way, he makes many points that hit home, such as, it is not what is done that is necessarily most important, but the process and ability to change things democratically that is. That was the great gem of wisdom that I took away from this splendid book, when I read it 23 years ago. Revel's is a unique and talented voice. It is a pity more of his books are not translated nto English. His recent memoire, available only in French, is truly brilliant as well.

7 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this book should be re published the soon it's possible, January 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Without Marx or Jesus (Paperback)

Innocent people in america should have the opportunity to read" the real revolution that is about to came to the end " Reven is the voice of the last generation of the this century,God send messengers to protect life, after Reven many Angels were born on the fifties and Serafins are and will take care life on Earth.............infinitly.........