Rob Kroes, professor and chairman of the Department of American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, is the author of The Persistence of Ethnicity and editor or coauthor of twenty-five collections of essays.

"The Dutch scholar [Kroes] textually almost chuckles as he writes of French fears of a 'cultural Chernobyl' with the arrival of Euro-Disney outside Paris. But, he adds, the French have also elevated American cultural forms to high art, from jazz music to B-movies to hard-boiled detective novels. Such European ambivalence is the stuff of his new book." -- The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rob Kroes, professor and chairman of the Department of American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, is the author of The Persistence of Ethnicity and editor or coauthor of twenty-five collections of essays.

"The Dutch scholar [Kroes] textually almost chuckles as he writes of French fears of a 'cultural Chernobyl' with the arrival of Euro-Disney outside Paris. But, he adds, the French have also elevated American cultural forms to high art, from jazz music to B-movies to hard-boiled detective novels. Such European ambivalence is the stuff of his new book." -- The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rob Kroes, professor and chairman of the Department of American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, is the author of The Persistence of Ethnicity and editor or coauthor of twenty-five collections of essays.

"The Dutch scholar [Kroes] textually almost chuckles as he writes of French fears of a 'cultural Chernobyl' with the arrival of Euro-Disney outside Paris. But, he adds, the French have also elevated American cultural forms to high art, from jazz music to B-movies to hard-boiled detective novels. Such European ambivalence is the stuff of his new book." -- The Chronicle of Higher Education