American Journey – Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America –

“In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville began a nine-month journey in search of what he later called ‘Democracy in America”. Using Tocqueville’s original notes, Richard Reeves retraced those travels, going to the same places to find the modern counterparts of the Americans.

The Americans of the 1830s and the Americans of the 1980s are the subject and the glory of American Journey. For two men, the Frenchman and the American, traveling the United States was an adventure of the road and of the mind.

Tocqueville and Reeves both began their journeys in Newport, Rhode Island, and then traveled through New York and Philadelphia crisscrossing the country to Michigan in the north and Louisiane in the south. …”