Alexis de Tocqueville is best known for having written a brilliant study of the emerging American democracy, its politics and form of government, its economics, demographics, and attitudes, in short almost everything that could be known about this new country and the character of the new man, the "American." His book is, of course, Democracy in America. His insights were the result of a nine-month trip that he made to the United States with a ...
Juan Ezekiel Fontana (1930-2018) was a Mexican journalist who covered some of the twentieth century's most tragic events, notably the French-Algerian War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He produced, along the way, many hundreds of small drawings in sketchbooks of varied sizes. In 2017, the American memoirist and poet, Harvey Mudd, was invited to help Fontana curate his drawings for the purpose of creating an album for Fontana's daughter....
The author started life with every advantage. Behind the faade of wealth, however, there was a psychologically abusive mother whose unconscious agendas might have done lasting damage had he not resisted. In these pages, he describes that childhood.
When he reached his majority, he set out to find new ways of thinking and new places to live. The life that resulted, a somewhat "disheveled improvisation, " included, after intensive psychothera...
