Fire and Ice
Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada)
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780143014232
First sentence: FRENCH THINKER AND POLITICIAN Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the above-quoted words in 1831, but over 170 years later, they still register the crucial tension of American life: the great national struggle between personal independence and moral order.