Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the PEN New England/Winship Award.
List of Illustrations | p. vii |
Map: Tocqueville and Beaumont in America | p. xi |
Time Line of the American Journey | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Where Tocqueville Was Coming From | p. 3 |
First Impressions: New York City | p. 15 |
"Everything Attests to a New World" | p. 43 |
The Romance of the Forest | p. 66 |
Boston: Democracy as a State of Mind | p. 95 |
Philadelphia: Toleration, Association, and Incarceration | p. 114 |
Democracy in "the West" | p. 126 |
Downriver to New Orleans | p. 144 |
Road Trip Through the South | p. 165 |
The Nation's Disappointing Capital | p. 162 |
Building a Masterpiece | p. 194 |
After America | p. 217 |
Notes | p. 227 |
Index | p. 265 |
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