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Tocqueville's discovery of America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Damrosch, Leopold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Travel > United States.
United States > Description and travel.
National characteristics, American.
Table of Contents:
  • Where Tocqueville was coming from
  • First impressions : New York City
  • "Everything attests to a new world"
  • The romance of the forest
  • Boston : democracy as a state of mind
  • Philadelphia : toleration, association, and incarceration
  • Democracy in "the West"
  • Downriver to New Orleans
  • Road trip through the South
  • The nation's disappointing capital
  • Building a masterpiece
  • After America.