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August, 1982

When Alexis de Tocqueville toured America in the 1830s, he asked a lot of sharp questions and got a lot of candid answers from unsuspecting Americans whose comments later showed up in his famous work Democracy in America. In American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America (Simon & Schuster), Richard Reeves asks equally good questions and elicits remarkable candor from modern Americans posted along the pathways the Frenchman traveled.Reeves has listened to people ou...

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