American journey

Description:

Journalist Richard Reeves travels the United States with a character representing Alexis de Tocqueville, who brings his book Democracy in America as a guide. Reeves interviews American like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and Alaska disc jockey Buster Richardson, examining the status of our democracyand finding out who Americans perceive themselves to be.

subjects: Politics and government,  Social conditions,  Description and travel,  Conditions sociales,  Descriptions et voyages,  Descripción,  Situación social,  Politique et gouvernement,  Política y gobierno,  American wit and humor

People: Richard Reeves,  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859),  Richard Reeves (1936-),  Tocqueville Alexis de / De la démocratie en Amérique,  Alexis de Tocqueville

Places: United States,  États-Unis,  Estados Unidos

Times: 1960-,  1945-,  1960-1980,  1945-1989