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American vertigo : traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lévy, Bernard-Henri
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
Lévy, Bernard-Henri > Travel > United States.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Travel > United States.
National characteristics, American.
Table of Contents:
  • Le voyage en Amérique. First visions (from Newport to Des Moines)
  • Moving west (from Kalona to Livingston)
  • The Pacific wall (from Seattle to San Diego)
  • Desert vertigo (from Vegas to Tempe)
  • Gone with the South (from Austin to Little Rock)
  • Eye of the hurricane (from Miami to Pittsburgh)
  • The beautiful and the damned (from Washington, D.C., back to Cape Cod)
  • Reflections. What does it mean to be an American?
  • American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs)
  • Has America gone mad?
  • Postscript.