Volume 46, Number 9 · May 20, 1999
Put Out More Flags
By Neal Ascherson
Anglomania: A European Love Affair
by Ian Buruma
Random House, 304 pp., $25.95
Anglomania, the passion for 'une certaine idée de l'Angleterre,' possessed European intellectuals for some two hundred years. Today, it is something of an endangered hobby. Europe has changed and so has England, whose very identity is now a matter of feverish speculation in the increasingly disunited United Kingdom. I was happy to see that Ian Buruma dedicated this book to one of the last of the tribe, his friend the Hungarian intellectual Gaspar Miklos Tamas.
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