Tocqueville Road Trip from The Economist

Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in May 1831. America was still getting started. But this young French aristocrat was the first foreigner to foresee what it would become: not just a country, but an idea—one powerful enough to shape the future of the world.Tocqueville's nine-month road trip took him to the frontier, to the South and, eventually, to t...