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Art and Democracy

Parrot & Olivier in America (2009), Peter Carey, 381 pp. I actually tried reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America before starting Carey’s novel (a fictionalized version of de Tocqueville’s journey through America in the 1930s), but de Tocqueville’s writing is positively soporific, … Continue reading

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