Word: bryce
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Foreign interpreters arrived like immigrant waves. One of the earliest, and still the genius of the genre, was Tocqueville. He saw beyond livestock and table manners; he viewed democracy with an eerily clairvoyant eye. Half a century later came Lord Bryce, whose American Commonwealth (1888) still runs a respectable second. But the visitors have rarely been that wise or objective. The interpretation of America has always been a species of self-discovery-and self-indulgence. The English novelist E.M. Forster said that America is like life because "you can usually find in it what you look...