America Through Foreign Eyes: Classic Interpretations of American Political Life / Edition 1

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The chapters in this volume address the issue of why and how foreign observers view American politics the way they do. By including selections from five of the most widely cited foreign observers of American politics and history, this volume not only provides and engaging historical overview of American democracy, but also directs attention to how and why these interpretations inform debate today. Included in the volume are excerpts from classic texts by Alexis de Tocqueville, James Bryce, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Laski, and Simone de Beauvoir.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195412291
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 3/18/2009
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 174
  • Product dimensions: 7.90 (w) x 5.20 (h) x 0.30 (d)

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Table of Contents

Preface
Ch. 1 The Meaning of America 1
Ch. 2 The Future Unfolding in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840) 15
Ch. 3 The Careful Empiricist: James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888) 39
Ch. 4 Understanding America's Greatest Failure: Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy (1944) 65
Ch. 5 America Viewed Through a Marxist Lens: Harold J. Laski, The American Democracy (1948) 87
Ch. 6 The Ambivalent Sojourner: Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day (1948) 117
Ch. 7 City Upon a Hill or Evening Land? 149
Notes 155
Index 158
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