Tocqueville's Discovery of America American History A newsman for sixty years

A newsman for sixty years

The book is helpful to anyone who wishes to understand how a major church body was turned in a more conservative direction by a grassroots movement that got out the vote to defeat one of the most powerful religious establishments in America

ISBN13: B001G3KRLM ISBN10: B001G3KRLM Material Type: hardcover

Dan Reeves

Tocqueville's Discovery of America American History A newsman for sixty yearsAlexis 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