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Without Marx or Jesus By Jean-François Revel Doubleday, 269 pp., $6.95

The Geography of Faith By Robert Coles Beacon, 179 pp., $7.50 What is it about the current crop of best-selling French writers on the American political scene that makes it so very difficult to take their work at all seriously? Ever since the publication of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber’s much publicized American Challenge— the little book that started it all—I have had that sinking feeling that the public was being subjected (without really knowing it) to a kind of literary version of the late show, with the same old plots, the same old endings, and even the same old commercials.

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Without Marx or Jesus By Jean-François Revel Doubleday, 269 pp., $6.95

The Geography of Faith By Robert Coles Beacon, 179 pp., $7.50 What is it about the current crop of best-selling French writers on the American political scene that makes it so very difficult to take their work at all seriously? Ever since the publication of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber’s much publicized American Challenge— the little book that started it all—I have had that sinking feeling that the public was being subjected (without really knowing it) to a kind of literary version of the late show, with the same old plots, the same old endings, and even the same old commercials.