Bibliography of the Genesee Region, 1790 to 1990: Details

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Entry Number 5067
Author TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE.
Title Journey to America 'trans. George Lawrence, ed. J.P. Mayer.
Publication New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. Abridged ed. Pub. 1971 by Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, N.Y. Trans. Of Voyages en Sicile et Etats-Unis, ed. J.-P. Mayer. (Oeuvres, papiers et correspondences, Vol. 5) Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
Subject(s) : TRAVEL LITERATURE: GUIDES & COLLECTED ACCOUNTS -- 1831
Notes (Tocqueville's travel journals give only incidental information about western New York; see Journey to America, trans. Lawrence, p. 132. How- ever, he had an important conversation with the prominent politician John C. Spencer of Canandaigua about American political institutions, and Beaumont took this down. See Pierson, Tocqueville and Beaumont in America, 1938 ed., pp. 216-25. It may be found in French in Mayer's ed. Of the Voyages, pp. 67-71; and in Beaumont's Lettres d’Amerique, pp. 97-104. Beaumont also makes remarks about Canandaigua and various Finger Lakes.) Tocqueville's companion Gustave de Beaumont recorded impressions and conversations along the way. See George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville and Beaumont in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Abridged ed., Tocqueville in America, ed. Dudley C. Little, pub. 1959 by Doubleday Anchor Books. Best French ed. Is now Lettres d'Amerique, 1831-1832, ed. Andre Jardin and George W. Pierson. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1973.
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