Tocqueville’s Letters Home

(NYTimes) ... The letters are in a way field notes for “Democracy in America.” Their observations are more spontaneous, less nuanced and considered than those in the book, without the note of regret that sometimes pops up there — for example, the idea that American individualism is isolating as well as liberating.
In these letters Tocqueville likes pretty much everything he sees except for slavery and the forced resettlement of the Indians. Continued

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