There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably "Richard Kuisel clearly belongs to the most prominent American authors who are responsible for our current state of historical knowledge. . . . Kuisel's book, which is conceptually challenging, methodologically sound, and empirically reliable, has much to offer."---Helke Rausch, H-France Forum