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Painted in Blood: Understanding Europeans
Painted in Blood explicates Europe’s violent past to show how the historical necessity to defend themselves still conditions the way Europeans think, drive, converse, shop, and conduct business. It penetrates the layered legacy of hierarchy and aristocracy to find the source of European courtliness and formality-so different from American casualness and friendly case. It goes on to examine common European criticisms of Americans-that we are superficial, materialistic, uninterested in tradition-and turns these on their heads. It depicts a divided European soul brooding over the loss of tradition and craftsmanship even as it hankers after modernity. It questions whether Europe still offers the depth Americans have always sought there. In stories from this life and travels, the author shows Europeans to be all that Americans have long found them to be – charming and exasperating, exquisitely polite and impenetrably rude-but, though Miller’s eyes, at last knowable.
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