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Bernard-Henri Lévy: Suffering From “American Vertigo”
by Terry Ward | 02.10.06 | 12:38 AM ET
Photograph of Bernard-Henri Lévy by Thierry Dudoit/L'Express/Editing. Terry Ward asks France's rock star philosopher, BHL, about his journey in Tocqueville's footsteps and the value of traveling par hasard
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by Jim Benning | 04.06.05 | 5:01 PM ET
In the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly, French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy chronicles his recent travels around the U.S., following in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville, the author of “Democracy in America,” was born 200 years ago this year, which according to goofy journalistic conventions makes the article more timely now than it would have been, say, last year. Anyway, it’s a promising concept: a contemporary French writer updating the classic account of his countryman published well over a century ago. Editors gave Lévy lots of room in the magazine, and he covers plenty of ground in the article, writing of his visit to Rikers Island prison, the baseball Hall of Fame and the Mall of America. He waxes philosophical about Barack Obama and ponders the psychological reasons behind the American flags he spots everywhere.
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