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Tag: Alexis de Tocqueville
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Arts & Culture
In translation, he found his raison d’être
Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.
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Arts & Culture
Tocqueville’s Discovery of America
Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.