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Author Levy, Bernard Henri.

Title American vertigo : traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville / Bernard-Henri Levy.

Imprint New York : Random House, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  917.304931 L579a 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents Le voyage en Amerique. First visions (from Newport to Des Moines) -- Moving west (from Kalona to Livingston) -- The Pacific wall (from Seattle to San Diego) -- Desert vertigo (from Vegas to Tempe) -- Gone with the South (from Austin to Little Rock) -- Eye of the hurricane (from Miami to Pittsburgh) -- The beautiful and the damned (from Washington, D.C., back to Cape Cod) -- Reflections. What does it mean to be an American? -- American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs) -- Has America gone mad? -- Postscript.
Subject United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN 1400064341 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781400064342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780739472897 (pbk)
0739472895 (pbk)
Standard No. IG# 1400064341
NLGGC 288457110
YDXCP 2254291
NZ1 10530281

 
    
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