{"product_id":"letter-to-the-americans","title":"Letter to the Americans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLike Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder of America's promise — and a powerful critique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront―its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations―in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLetter to the Americans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eremains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47878946980098,"sku":"9780811231596","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/lettertotheamericans.jpg?v=1780030170","url":"https:\/\/shop.stlartsupply.com\/products\/letter-to-the-americans","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}