This section is a peek into my personal library, all the beloved books I have collected over the years before and since moving to Paris. I’ve read and even reviewed most of them, met with the authors, they are dear to me both as an avid and endlessly curious reader, but also as an American expatriate in Paris. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them. And if you want some personal reading advice, just send me a mail…
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AMERICAN VERTIGO
What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today?To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
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Walks Through Lost Paris
When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid–1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris's history and began photographing what he learned had changed
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