American vertigo traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Le voyage en Amérique. First visions (from Newport to Des Moines)
- Moving west (from Kalona to Livingston)
- The Pacific wall (from Seattle to San Diego)
- Desert vertigo (from Vegas to Tempe)
- Gone with the South (from Austin to Little Rock)
- Eye of the hurricane (from Miami to Pittsburgh)
- The beautiful and the damned (from Washington, D.C., back to Cape Cod)
- Reflections. What does it mean to be an American?
- American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs)
- Has America gone mad?
- Postscript.
