American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Paperback)

from bruchu

BHL is no Tocqueville, but well worth reading In this refreshing take on contemporary American culture, French journalist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy (known simply as BHL in France) retraces the steps of his compatriot Alexis de Tocqueville who almost 2 centuries ago traversed what was Ame...

from LukeS

The Frenchman Bernard-Henri Levy looks at the U.S. through the eyes of a European: there is the bemusement over the flag fetish, when you see more than a hundred in just a couple of blocks in a New England town; America's undeniable belief in itself. So many of the new-fangled social and technolo...

from cmeatto

Levy has sold himself on his own cliche of America. The reality is our problems are far deeper than our surface ones. I did not find that he had any new insights that have not been covered by Maureen Dowd, Gail Collins, and countless others.

from ashergabbay

This is a book I've been meaning to read for a long time but it took me a while to get my hands on the original French version. I thought that a book written by a French intellectual and philosopher offering ruminations about America deserved to be read in French... A friend finally got me a copy...

from ashergabbay

This is a book I've been meaning to read for a long time but it took me a while to get my hands on the original French version. I thought that a book written by a French intellectual and philosopher offering ruminations about America deserved to be read in French... A friend finally got me a copy...