The chapters in this volume address the issue of why and how foreign observers view American politics the way they do. By including selections from five of the most widely cited foreign observers of American politics and history, this volume not only provides and engaging historical overview of
American democracy, but also directs attention to how and why these interpretations inform debate today. Included in the volume are excerpts from classic texts by Alexis de Tocqueville, James Bryce, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Laski, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Preface
1. America Through Foreign Eyes
2. The Future Unfolding in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840)
3. The Careful Empiricist: James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888)
4. Understanding America's Greatest Failure: Gunnar Myrdal An American
Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy (1994)
5. The Europeanization of America? Harold J. Laski, The American Democracy (1948)
6. The Ambivalent Sojourner: Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day (1948)
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Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
