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Reporting on the U.S. of the early 1830s as seen through his shrewd Gallic eyes, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans tended in their attitude toward the arts to "put the real in place of the ideal." That has always been true of the interior of the White House. First occupied in 1800, when the nation was still in its raw infancy, when Washington, D.C., was a muddy village with a few thousand inhabitants, the White House has, through the changing decades, served its practical functions as residence and office for the President. What was neglected was the ideal...
...period. The Green Room is done in the Federal style prevalent in the days of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the Blue Room in the French imports of the Monroe era, 1817-25, and the Red Room in the gilt and scarlet of the Empire style of the late 1830s...
...Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting the U.S. in the 1830s, who first reported the "novel expression," individualism. This must not be confused with mere selfishness, he explained, but was "a mature and calm feeling" of withdrawal from the community. He thought it was a dangerous tendency but also believed that America's political institutions would keep it in check. Amid this early American balance of man and society developed a new breed of individual...
...push up domestic prices, and the Tariff of Abominations stirred up impassioned opposition. South Carolina even enacted a Nullification Ordinance that declared the 1828 tariffs void within the state. The boomerang result of the 1828 Tariff Act was a freer-trade movement that prevailed in Congress from the early 1830s until the Civil War brought on a new surge of protectionism...
...more he listened to his friend's description of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, that day in the 1830s, the more excited became Manhattan's great Philanthropist Peter Cooper. Once a $25-a-year apprentice to a coachmaker. Cooper had risen to fame and fortune with only about a year's formal schooling behind him. But in Paris, according to his friend, there were hundreds of poor young men willing to live "on a bare crust of bread" to attend the Ecole. As the friend went on, Cooper began to think: "How glad I should have been...