American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

A leading French writer travels America in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville to provide a fascinating glimpse of American politics, culture, and society and what it means to be an American from the perspective of a foreign observer, addressing such issues as the religion of baseball, immigration, ideology, law, and the "tyranny of the majority." Reprint. 50,000 first printing.