American Journey

Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America

• Author(s): Richard Reeves,
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Pages: 399
• ISBN_10: 0671470671
  ISBN_13: 9780671470678
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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.