Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America let's the reader accompany Tocqueville and his friend, Beaumont, on their nine month journey through the United States of 1831-32. Ostensibley here to inspect our prison system, the adventurous young men used the opportunity to checkout many other aspects of our society. Among much else, they found our manners rather barbaric, couldn't understand the social freedom of unmarried women, and found Ohio to be the essence of the "new America."
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
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