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Book Synopsis"The house of Belgium and its many houses - institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric - captured in a blend of social and cultural analysis that offers a microcosm of European society since World War II. Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable." - Eugen Weber.
Trade ReviewIn the Belgian Chateau is a visit with one of America's most distinguished sociologists to a fascinating part of Europe in the last half of the twentieth century. -- Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of
The Return of Martin Guerre
A marvelously vivid and insightful book! -- Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Peripheral Visions
Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable. -- Eugen Weber, author of My France
A remarkable intellectual discourse and a rare glimpse of European culture. Those people who know her work recognize Fox as an international treasure. -- Lee Gutkind, Editor, Creative Nonfiction * Library Journal *
