Breaker has a very good post which links to this one in Hudson Review. I read only Breaker’s excerpt and the first few paragraphs thus far, but went to the site and copied the entire article to read at my leisure. It is quite lengthy, but at first blush is very good.
The article references many other views, including one I read some time ago, The Eagle’s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World, by American journalist and NPR commentator Mark Hertsgaard. Bruce Bawer (the author) comes to the same conclusion I did regarding the book:
In any event, The Eagle’s Shadow proves to be something of a gyp: for though it’s packaged as a work of reportage about foreigners’ views of America, it’s really a jeremiad by Hertsgaard himself, punctuated occasionally, to be sure, by relevant quotations from cabbies, busdrivers, and, yes, a restaurateur whom he