American vertigo : traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville

American vertigo traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 1948- (-)
Other Authors: Mandell, Charlotte
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Random House 2006.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Lévy, Bernard-Henri > 1948- > Viajes > Estados Unidos.
Tocqueville, Alexis de > 1805-1859 > Viajes > Estados Unidos.
Identidad cultural > Américanos.
Estados Unidos > Descripción y viajes > s. XIX-XX.
Estados Unidos > Situación social > s. XIX-XX.
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010941619708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
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.

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