An edition of American Vertigo (2005)

American vertigo

on the road from Newport to Guantanamo (in the footsteps of Aexis de Tocqueville)

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An edition of American Vertigo (2005)

American vertigo

on the road from Newport to Guantanamo (in the footsteps of Aexis de Tocqueville)

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Through powerful interview-based portraits from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Sharon Stone, from workers at a brothel to inhabitants of a gated retirement community, this volume paints a remarkable portrait of America.

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Publisher
Gibson Square
Language
English
Pages
383

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Subjects

National characteristics, american, United states, description and travel, United states, social conditions, 1980-, American National characteristics, Description and travel, Social conditions, Travel, Civilization, United states, social conditions

People

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948-)

Places

United States

Times

1980-, 21st century
Edition Availability
Cover of: American Vertigo
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
2011, Gibson Square Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: American Vertigo
American Vertigo
2008, Gibson Square Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: American vertigo
American vertigo: travelling with the great and the gross
2008, Gibson Square
in English
Cover of: American Vertigo
American Vertigo: Traveling to the Great and the Gross
2008, Gibson Square Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: American Vertigo
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
April 10, 2007, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: American vertigo
American vertigo: on the road from Newport to Guantanamo (in the footsteps of Aexis de Tocqueville)
2006, Gibson Square
in English
Cover of: American Vertigo
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
January 24, 2006, Random House
Hardcover in English
Cover of: American vertigo
American vertigo
2006, Grasset
in French
Cover of: American vertigo
American vertigo: traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville
2005, Random House
in English - 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.

Edition Notes

Published in
London, England

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
917.304931
Library of Congress
E169.Z83 L47 2006, E169.Z83

The Physical Object

Pagination
383 pages
Number of pages
383

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL37014407M
Internet Archive
americanvertigoo0000levy
ISBN 10
1903933870
ISBN 13
9781903933879
OCLC/WorldCat
181067622

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL27785165W

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What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year travelling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about this country.

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