It's a common qualifying test for presidential candidates: they have to say out loud that the United States is the greatest country on Earth. Which raises a question: how are the people in all the other countries supposed to feel?
In France, it's apparently like our feeling, and Sudhir Hazareesingh tracks it in his book .
The book points up the profound influence of the French on Western culture... including on the foundational thoughts of our own country.
The author joins us to lay out the case.
