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How the French Hindered the American Revolution |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert M. Smalley |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,005 Words, 6,283 Characters |
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THE FRENCH WAR AGAINST AMERICA: HOW A TRUSTED ALLY BETRAYED WASHINGTON AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS
By Harlow Giles Unger
Wiley, $27.95, 304 pages
Perhaps the most enduring tenet of American history, implanted early in our school years, is the belief that France was our strongest ally and our closest friend during the American Revolution against the English. Now comes historian Harlow Giles Unger with "The French War Against America," a fascinating account of the schemes, intrigue and distrust that were woven among the three major combatants in our breakaway--Britain, France and the United States, each of them aligned against the other two--and in this case, Unger asserts, it was basically France against the United States.
Unger's book makes clear that none of them wante...
. . .
...f the American republic.
He makes a compelling case that the French-American relationship in the 18th century was problematic, to say the least. However, at a time when President Bush has been working diligently to restore and raise the level of Franco-American trust and friendship, it is to be hoped that this book will not work against that end.
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