Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968
The Nouveau Frontier
By George Lichtheim
The American Challenge
by J.J. Servan-Schreiber, translated by Ronald Steel
Atheneum, 320 pp., $6.95
When Le Défi Américain was published last year, it was immediately a bestseller all over Western Europe. One can see why. The subject it dealt with—America's threatening technological hegemony—was important. The author was chief editor of an influential liberal weekly, L'Express. There was a ready-made audience in the shape of all those modern-minded youngish businessmen and managerial types who a decade earlier had briefly hearkened to the voice of Mendès-France. Moreover, M. Servan-Schreiber, while decidedly no Gaullist, could not be written off as a simple-minded anti-Gaullist either: he stood, and stands, for a greater degree of European independence from the United States. He also stands for that section of the Center-Left in France which backs M. Mitterand.
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