Title: American Vertigo
First published: 2005
Description: What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year travelling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about this country.
Subjects: National characteristics, american, United states, description and travel, United states, social conditions, 1980-, American National characteristics, Description and travel, Social conditions, Travel, Civilization, United states, social conditions, Tocqueville, alexis de, 1805-1859, United states, social conditions, 21st century
Places: United States
People: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948-)
Time periods: 1980-, 21st century
LC classification: E169.Z83 L48 2005