Volume 29, Number 12 · July 15, 1982
Good Morning, America
By Thomas R. Edwards
Hometown
by Peter Davis
Simon and Schuster, 331 pp., $14.95
American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of "Democracy in America"
by Richard Reeves
Simon and Schuster, 399 pp., $15.95
It's not often spelled with a 'k' these days, and after two decades of doubt and disaffection many people seem able to hope that 'America' is no longer a dirty word. In their new books about the state of the nation neither Peter Davis nor Richard Reeves adopts the mood of our present rulers, but both cautiously assume a continuity in the American character that would not dismay Ronald Reagan.
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