Nicole Bacharan (born 25 January 1955) is a French historian and political scientist specializing in American society and French-American relations. She is a researcher with the National Foundation for Political Science (

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) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at

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in California from 2013 to 2014. Famous for her books and her TV appearances and radio broadcasts in France and the United States, she is the author of numerous essays including several bestsellers, "Faut-il avoir peur de l’Amérique ?" (Should We Be Afraid of America?) and "Américains-Arabes, l’affrontement" (Americans-Arabs, The Confrontation). In collaboration with Dominique Simonnet, she also writes novels in the Némo series. On September 11, 2001, live from the France 2 evening news show hosted by

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, she left a mark on French television-watchers when she said "Tonight, we are all Americans," a phrase repeated the following day in the newspaper ''

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''.

TV appearances and radio broadcasts

In France, Nicole Bacharan, nicknamed by ''The New Economist'' "Miss America","Miss America"
Le Nouvel Economiste, 20 novembre 2008 is a radio contributor for Europe 1 on international politics, questions concerning the United States, and transatlantic relations. She is also a contributor to numerous television programs in France and Europe (TF1, France 2, France 3, TV5, I Television). In the United States, she has given many interviews on these same topics to ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'' or NPR, and appears on CNN, ABC and other networks.

Speaker

Nicole Bacharan gives frequent conferences for numerous organizations, including "L'

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", the French American Foundation, "l'Association France-Amérique", "l'Association France-Etats Unis". From 1997 to 2002, she taught a seminar in English at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris on contemporary America (The New American Dream). She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Blois Historical Association and the History-Science Commission on Man and Society at the National Book Center.

Books

* ''11 septembre, le jour du chaos'', avec Dominique Simonnet, Ed. Perrin, 2011 * ''La Plus Belle Histoire des femmes'', avec

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, Michelle Perrot, Sylviane Agasinski, Seuil, 2011 * ''Les Noirs américains, des champs de coton à la Maison blanche '', Éd. Perrin, 2010 * ''La Plus Belle Histoire de la liberté'', avec

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et Abdelwahab Meddeb, postface by

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, Seuil, 2009 * ''Le Petit livre des élections américaines'', Éd. du Panama, 2008 * ''Les Noirs américains '', Éd. du Panama, 2008 * ''Pourquoi nous avons besoin des Américains'', Seuil, mars 2007 * ''Américains, Arabes : l’affrontement'' (avec Antoine Sfeir), Seuil, septembre 2006 * ''Faut-il avoir peur de l’Amérique ?'' Seuil, octobre 2005 * ''Good Morning America'', Seuil, 2001 * ''L’amour expliqué à nos enfants'', avec Dominique Simonnet, Seuil, 2000 * ''Le Piège : quand la démocratie perd la tête'', Seuil, 1998 * ''Histoire des Noirs américains au XXème siècle'', Complexe, 1994 Novels, with Dominique Simonnet : * ''Némo dans les Étoiles'', Seuil, 2004 * ''Némo en Égypte'', Seuil, 2002 * ''Némo en Amérique'', Seuil, 2001 * ''Le Livre de Némo'', Seuil, 1998

Order

The President of French Republic awarded her with the

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in 2007.

References

External links

Nicole Bacharan and Dominique Simonnet

Nicole Bacharan
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