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April 12, 1982

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a reporter at large

II-AMERICAN JOURNEY

Richard Reeves

REPORTER AT LARGE about following in the footsteps of Alex de Tocqueville who visited the US in 1831 and then wrote "Democracy in America." Writer quotes …