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Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America Hardback - 2001

by David Cohen

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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville his journey to America, traveling from New York to the frontier city of Flint, Michigan, down the Ohio River Valley and into Mississippi, then turning east through the Old South and concluding in Washington, D.C. His journey spawned the classic "Democracy in America," the book that defined "equality of opportunity" as the wellspring national character.
At the end of the twentieth century, journalist David Cohen made that same journey, with one new destination--the frontier of Silicon Valley in California. "Chasing the Red, White, and Blue" is his account: a thought-provoking inquiry into the lives of Americans today. Talking with people at every level of society--from Manhattan real estate brokers and Washington lobbyists to supermarket clerks and illegal aliens--Cohen finds equality elusive and the poor increasingly adrift from American society. But he also finds hope alive in the most unexpected of places.
Just as "Democracy in America" took the measure of our young republic, "Chasing the Red, White, and Blue" portrays a much-changed America on the cusp of a new millennium: still united by our passion for democracy, yet divided by our prejudices.

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  • Title Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America
  • Author David Cohen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Publication date 2001-11
  • ISBN 9780312261542 / 0312261543
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.86 x 1.11 in (21.44 x 14.88 x 2.82 cm)
  • Category Travel - United States
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, National characteristics, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001036350
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.304

About the author

David Cohen is an award-winning British and South African journalist who has written for "The Independent, The Guardian, The Financial Times, " and British "GQ," as well as for "The New York Times." He was born in Birmingham, England, grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and returned to England in the late eighties to attend Oxford University where he studied politics, philosophy and economics. He came to the United States in 1997 on a Harkness Fellowship and was hosted by Columbia University for three years. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. This is his first book.
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