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AMERICAN JOURNEY by Richard Reeves
On Dec. 5, 1831, a steamboat got caught in Ohio River ice. The 26-year-old passenger from Paris, Alexis de Tocqueville, dispassionately wrote in his notebook, "Just now the vessel is cracking from poop to prow." There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way...
It was Richard Reeves' brave notion to accomplish a rough duplicate of Tocqueville's tour, seeking out the same sorts of Americans-the mayor of New York City, the president of Harvard, businessmen and editors in quantity, and an embittered ex-President (John Quincy Adams for Tocqueville. Nixon...
Was the modern reporter right to confine his travels to a retracing of Tocqueville's journey in the older and possibly more fatigued half of the U.S.? Louisville, for instance, seemed to Reeves drained of all local character (and, ignominiously, of its local Falls City beer, now produced elsewhere...
The Currier defense--guided by Tom Reeves and Sven Gramnerstorf--gave a stellar performance, stymieing the Leverett offense throughout the game.