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In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Elementary Particles, \u003c\/i\u003e widely derided as a sex-obsessed racist and misogynist. What began as a secret correspondence between bitter enemies evolved into a remarkable joint personal meditation by France's premier literary and political live wires. An instant international bestseller, \u003ci\u003ePublic Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e has now been translated into English for all lovers of superb insights, scandalous opinions, and iconoclastic ideas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn wicked, wide-ranging, and freewheeling letters, the two self-described whipping boys debate whether they crave disgrace or secretly have an insane desire to please. L vy extols heroism in the face of tyranny; Houellebecq sees himself as one who would fight little and badly. 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He revisits and updates Tocqueville's most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by \"the tyranny of the majority,\" explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist's eye and a philosopher's depth.\u003cbr\u003e Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Levy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices-some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. 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Levy offers a fresh, surprising critique of a new and stealthy form of anti-Semitism on the rise as well as a provocative defense of Israel from the left. He reveals the overlooked Jewish roots of Western democratic ideals and confronts the current Islamist threat while intellectually dismantling it. 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