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April 5, 1982

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a reporter at large

I-AMERICAN JOURNEY

Richard Reeves

REPORTER AT LARGE about following in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the U.S. from France in 1831 for a 9-month stay. After returning …

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