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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two books on related topics combined into one lot to consolidate shipping charge. Boards on each volume resist opening past 80 degrees -- as-new unread. Number lines complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- first printings. In "Anti-Ameicanism," a French intellectual comes to the defense of America (which is welcome), attributing most European anti-Americanism to disguised anti-capitalism on the part of Europeans who secretly favor totalitarianism over democracy (in which he's probably correct.) Unlike De Tocqueville, however, it appears Revel writes from Paris, and he gets a few details wrong, quoting a French police source for his report that the anarchic black market in arms in France is actually worse than the American system (possibly true) since "The officially condoned selling of arms to individuals in America at least makes provision for the registration of the purchaser's name, who must also pay for a license and be fingerprinted." While this describes the current (albeit unconstitutional) American system of MACHINE-GUN registration, and in some jurisdictions the set-up for acquiring a "concealed-carry permit," in fact most American gun owners of course purchased their legal arms without any fingerprinting or "licensing" . . . the victim-disarmament dreams of Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein notwithstanding. In our second volume, John Gibson's "Hating America," the TV host watches the foreign press after 9/11 -- not just in the Middle East, but also in Europe, Asia and Canada -- attacking America with "an off-the-charts level of venom, a scandalous parade of mistaken assumptions, an endless font of suspicion, mistrust, and the promulgation of outright, willful lies." 176 and 288 pp., respectively. The lot of two books on related topics now reduced from $20.