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Letters from America Hardcover – November 30, 2010

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1st THUS edition (November 30, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300153821
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300153828
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA fresh look at the New World
By Guillermo Maynez on November 29, 2010
Format: Hardcover
During their nine-month journey through the United States in 1831, Tocqueville and his companion-friend Gustave de Beaumont wrote several letters which illustrate thier opinions on the new and exciting phenomena they were encountering. Perhaps the most interesting part is the two-week trip they undertook, with the aim of finding "the last frontier", the remotest corner colonized to that date by Europeans within the US territory. They travelled by land to Buffalo, from which they sailed through the Eerie lake to Detroit, from where they rode to Saginaw, in the Michigan peninsula. As it was to be expected, Tocqueville mixes his travel observations with intelligent reflections on the possible future of the civilization that was beginning to take shape in those cold lands. One of the things that shocked them was that the colonizers were amazed and amused by the travellers' interest in finding virgin lands and seeing the indigenous populations. "Why look for forests? Come see our new town and the bridge!" Tocquevile sadly feels and anticipated nostalgia for those forests and those tribes which, he knows, will soon disappear, trampled underfoot by the rapid advance of the Western civilization. One of the most intriguing passages concerns an Indian who seems to be following them on foot. Whenever they speed in their horses, the Indian speeds too, marching at the same pace. When they pause, he pauses too. The situation becomes uncomfortable and even frightening, until at some point it stops in a funny way. Althouhg only a footnote to Tocqueville's masterpiece, "Democracy in America", his letters are also a very good and entertaining source on information on this great observer of politics.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMarvellous, insightful, funny
By N.. Martin on February 14, 2015
Format: Hardcover
I made the mistake of leaving this on my shelf for months. Turns out it is one of the best reads I've encountered in ages. Tocqueville and his companion Beaumont are invariably smart, perspicacious, warm, and witty. What wonderful bloggers they would be. Tocqueville doesn't always hit the mark, but his accuracy percentage is remarkably high. There was little of merit that escaped his attention, and his interpretative ability continues to astound. He's also a fair enough wit to have me laughing out loud from time to time. His letters to his sister are particularly interesting and amusing. The book is a worthy companion to his famous book, and it stands well on its own. Sometimes the translation seems almost too good to be true.
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5.0 out of 5 starsdeTocqueville's letters home edited and translated by Frederick Brown
By Gderf on March 12, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Each book on democracy in America has an obligatory reference to deToqueville. It's about time someone gave a comprehensive popular easily readable insight into the man and his writing. This is an opportunity to observer the great observer. It's a quick read about T's trip to America in 1831-2. The book is a compilation of letters to his friends and relatives in France. It starts with his family background and how his relatives managed to survive the period of Robespierre's terror.

His observations of American statesmen limited to Jackson, JQA , Webster and Joel Poinsett
Colonel Fish a friend of Hamilton and a daughter of Robert Fulton. The loquacious, hyperactive writing style is strangely very readable, somewhat like a stream of conscience mixed with very prescient observations. He generally shows concern for European politics as well as for the USA. He fears another terror after the upheavals of 1830. In citing a mercantile nationalism, he makes the curious observation that it's easy to get rich in the USA. He poses interesting and prescient questions about banking and judicial systems in America. He observes that we don't need either a standing army or an intelligent foreign policy. I wish it was still true.

Besides observing the American penal system, the object of T's voyage, he made observations on society, religion, Indians, travel, geography, and politics and especially the court system. In a study of American banking, he noted that paper is replacing coin. That before the demise of the second BUS. I would have been interested in a similar observation after 1836. In America there is no lower class nor upper. It's still true, but now we deplore income disparity. Treaties are interpreted by the mightier. Indians practiced foot binding, making women pigeon toed.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific Reading
By Cathleen Ortolani on November 15, 2011
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I enjoyed reading this book so much that it led me to purchase, & attempt to read, his 'Democracy in America' which I'm still struggling through. However, the letters are fascinating & thoroughly enjoyable to read of 1830's America, especially of the Courting rituals!
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3.0 out of 5 starsTedious but informative.
By MVWmom1 on December 15, 2013
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Tedious reading but it made for a terrific discussion in our book group. The book is deceivingly small and repetitive. What a different country he found in America as opposed to his France which seemed always to be in turmoil.
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