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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lévy, Bernard-Henri.

Standardized Title:

American vertigo. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Lévy, Bernard-Henri.

Travel.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Lévy, Bernard-Henri--Travel--United States.

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Travel--United States.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

National characteristics, American.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2006]

Summary:

France's leading writer travels the country to discover what it means to be an American, and what American can be, at the dawn of the 21st century.

Contents:

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)

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.

ISBN:

1400064341

OCLC:

62118425