C-SPAN’s Traveling Tocqueville’s America: Retracing the 17-state tour that inspired Alexis de Tocqueville’s poltical classic Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s travels in America in 1831-32 have recently become the subject of renewed interest, as a C-SPAN special program has retraced the Frenchmen’s journey by broadcasting each week from a different city along the route. Now the Tocqueville rediscovery continues with the publication of this unique guidebook. Comprised of fifty-five brief chapters covering each of the places Tocqueville visited, the book allows the reader to h… More >>