Praise for "Tocqueville's Discovery of America"
"Tocqueville's Discovery of America is lively, always interesting,
and oftne touching. It also fills a gap in the literature that was
deliberately created by Tocqueville himself."--Alan Ryan, "The New
York Review of Books""[A] scintillating new book . . . Remarkably,
given the excitements and reach of Tocqueville's nine-month
American trip, it is seventy years since the last full account of
the itinerary. Leo Damrosch is well qualified to do the renovation.
A distinguished specialist of eighteenth-century literature at
Harvard . . . he is deeply familiar with Tocqueville's literary and
intellectual contexts . . . Damrosch contagiously enjoys himself,
and happily enters into the enthusiasms of the two young Frenchmen,
as they let the strange, loud, free, placeless society disturb and
excite them." --James Wood, "The New Yorker
""Leo Damrosch has provided a perfect accompaniment to ["Democracy
in America"] . . . This lovely
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