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Article: The tears of the white man: compassion as contempt.
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- National Review
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- November 21, 1986
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THE RIGHT BOOKS/CHILTON WILLIAMSON JR.
AFTER THREE YEARS, Pascal Bruckner's Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc--first published in France in 1983 to praise from, among other critics, Jean-Francois Revel--makes its appearance in the United States as The Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt (Free Press, $17.95), to praise from Jeane Kirkpatrick and a laudatory review in the New York Times. The enthusiasm on both sides of the Atlantic is deserved: Bruckner's book is indeed what Revel says it is, a very important work. In fact, it is one of the finest and most stylish (in William R. Beer's English translation) volumes of historical polemicism published in the last ...