America

America

In the spirit of Tocqueville, a French philosopher traveled America and recorded a collection of travelers tales that provides insight into the country that dominates the world, in a new edition with an additional introduction. Reprint.
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0xADADA@0xadada
3 stars
Mar 2, 2024

The third part is great, his insight into the Regan administration as theatrics is dead-on and applies to Trump even more. More applicable and relevant in 2016 than in the mid-1980s. The final chapter should be skipped because it's continental postmodernist babble. Overall a persuasive take on American society from the Postmodernist continental perspective, and yet he wasn't able to reach escape velocity of the constraints of his own methodology.

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Christopher McCaffery@cmccafe
2 stars
Feb 8, 2022

Some fun bits in the beginning, but gets exceedingly tedious as it drags on. A few good lines throughout.

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Declan Bond Schweitzer @declanbond
4 stars
Aug 15, 2022
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Anas A@kenkitano
3 stars
Oct 31, 2022

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Elina Berzina@elinabrzn

Carrying out any kind of programme produces the same sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.

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