Table of Contents

Preface ; 1. America Through Foreign Eyes ; 2. The Future Unfolding in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840) ; 3. The Careful Empiricist: James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888) ; 4. Understanding America's Greatest Failure: Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy (1994) ; 5. The Europeanization of America? Harold J. Laski, The American Democracy (1948) ; 6. The Ambivalent Sojourner: Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day (1948)