Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville’s America has vanished
When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in 1831, he found a city a quarter of the size of…
There was nothing remotely pleasant about a peasant’s existence
Focusing on Ireland and his own peasant heritage, Patrick Joyce laments the passing of a distinctive way of life. But the world his parents left behind was truly horrible
