We'll always have Paris : American tourists in France since 1930
"For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. This sequel to the widely praised Seductive Journey explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people."
Travel writing
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226473789, 0226473783
54501527
pt. 1. Great depression follies
It sometimes rains in Nice
The return of the middle classes
"Beautiful beyond belief": cultural tourism survives
Watching the world go by
pt. 2. War and revival
Martial visitors
A tattered welcome mat
Searching for Sartre, 1947-50
"Coca-colonization" and its discontents
"What country has so much to offer?"
"Bandwagons work like magic in tourism"
pt. 3 Loving and hating
The worms turn: 1962-1972
"This space ship is going to Paris"
Bouncing back: the 1980s
Postmodern tourism
Nobody's perfect