American vertigo
Subtitle: on the road from Newport to Guantanamo (in the footsteps of Aexis de Tocqueville)
By: Bernard-Henri Lévy
Publisher: Gibson Square
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781903933879
Subjects: Travel; American National characteristics; Social conditions; Description and travel
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Le voyage en Amérique. First visions (from Newport to Des Moines); title: Moving west (from Kalona to Livingston); title: The Pacific wall (from Seattle to San Diego); title: Desert vertigo (from Vegas to Tempe); title: Gone with the South (from Austin to Little Rock); title: Eye of the hurricane (from Miami to Pittsburgh); title: The beautiful and the damned (from Washington, D.C., back to Cape Cod); title: Reflections. What does it mean to be an American?; title: American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs); title: Has America gone mad?; title: Postscript.