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Introduction Laura Lee Downs Stephane Gerson 1
Medievalist and Francophile Despite Himself John W. Baldwin 21
A Mid-Atlantic Identity Robert O. Paxton 35
Tough Love for France Herman Lebovics 47
Fantasy Meets Reality: A Midwesterner Goes to Paris Lynn Hunt 61
Defense d'afficher... Steven Laurence Kaplan 73
France for Belgium Gabrielle M. Spiegel 89
Why Paris? Barbara B. Diefendorf 99
Catholic Connections, Jewish Relations, French Religion Thomas Kselman 111
Europe without Personal Angst Jan Goldstein 123
France, a Political Romance Edward Berenson 137
Choosing History, Discovering France Herrick Chapman 151
An African American in Paris Tyler Stovall 163
Writing at the Margins Leonard V. Smith 177
It's Not About France Ken Alder 189
Pilgrim's Progress: From Suburban Canada to Paris (via Montreal, Tokyo, and Tehran) Clare Haru Crowston 203
Between Douai and the U.S.A. Todd Shepard 215
Afterword Roger Chartier 227
Notes 233
List of Contributors 239
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Kasey McGarry
reviewed Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination on December 28, 2016
Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
I expected a lot more from this book, especially since Schlesinger was a famous historian and worked in the Kennedy administration (he wrote celebrated biographies of John and Bobby Kennedy. This memoir only covered the first 33 years of his life, so maybe a book on his latter years would be better. But this book is a huge exercise in name dropping. We learn not only the name of the headmaster of his prep school, but also the names of the headmasters of all the other famous prep schools. Every professor he ever had at prep school or at Harvard gets a half page explanation of who they were and what they did, as does everybody he ever worked with or was in the war with or was in his social circle. Schlesinger was an intellectual, so there's a lot of social philosophy and economic theory in the book. There's a reason I didn't like either philosophy or economics in college.
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