American journey : traveling with Tocqueville in search of democracy in America / Richard Reeves.
Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020.
1982
E839.5 .R38 1982 (Mapit)
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Title
American journey : traveling with Tocqueville in search of democracy in America / Richard Reeves.
Author
Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020.
ISBN
0671247468 (hbk.)
9780671247461 (hbk.)
Published
New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1982.
Language
English
Description
399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
E839.5 .R38 1982
Summary
Journalist Richard Reeves travels the United States with a character representing Alexis de Tocqueville, who brings his book Democracy in America as a guide. Reeves interviews American like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and Alaska disc jockey Buster Richardson, examining the status of our democracyand finding out who Americans perceive themselves to be.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-387) and index.
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Part 1: Newport to Rochester
Newport
Versailles to Newport
Albany
Ithaca and Auburn
Canandaigua
Rochester

Part 2: Cincinnati to Baltimore
Cincinnati
Louisville
Nashville and Memphis
New Orleans
Montgomery
Baltimore

Part 3: Saginaw to Detroit
Saginaw
Green Bay
Detroit

Part 4: Philadelphia to Washington
Philadelphia I & II
Boston I & II
Boston to New York
New York
Washington
Tocqueville and Beaumont.

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