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A newsman for sixty years

ISBN13: 9780439799058 ISBN10: 0439799058 Material Type: paperback

Tocqueville's Discovery of America American History and microwaving chartsAlexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine month journey through the young