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[Hater Depot]

I'm soliciting recommendations for good books or films in the subject of anti-Americanism around the globe. Serious works only, no pamphleteers please.

[Gopher]

J. Revel, Anti-Americanism.

[On the other hand]

Bernard Henri-Levy, a French philosopher, has written a book about that. I can't recall the title. He's not my favorite guy, but whatever.

[Beej]

The Koran.

[mises]

[On the other hand]

Actually, I think this is the one I was thinking of, though I don't know if it's specifically about anti-Americanism per se. I think it deals more with his travels around America.

[cheeseface]

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Do-People-Hate-America/dp/0971394253

Quite informative.

[bangbayed]

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526

[Gopher]

Bangbayed: W. Blum is an antiAmerican writer. He deliberately cultivates antiAmerican sentiment in the United States and abroad. He deliberately chose to translate his book into Arabic and market it in the Middle East. He worked with the Cuban govt to translate it into Spanish and then market it in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Osama bin Laden has praised his books. If anything, this books give insight into how antiAmerican thinkers see Amerika...

[bangbayed]

And like you, he was once virulently anti-communist. Funny how that works. Anyways, if the OP wanted to know what kind of literature anti-Americans read, there's one for him.

[Gopher]

No. He was never antiCommunist. And no. I am not nor ever have been "virulently antiCommunist." By the way, the Cold War ended over a decade ago, in case no one ever told you.

Rather, W. Blum was a non-foreign service officer employee at State for a few years. He resigned "in protest" over the Vietnam war in the mid-1960s. He did this histrionically, as if his resignation meant something to anyone other than himself. Now, by his own admission, he writes sensationalist books that allow him to vent his extremist, "military-industrial-complex" politics. No more, no less.

Oh yeah, he also complains that the American govt will not grant him a security clearance and take him on at State, Defense, or CIA. Go figure.

Blum's are the kind of politics that alienate many antiAmerican Latin Americans. Fascinating, reassuring thing to see.

[Bibbitybop]

Forget the author, and it's more about anti-West, but it's called "Occidentalism."

[bacasper]

For many of the reasons for anti-Americanism, read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

[Kuros]

[bacasper]