The Newest Tocqueville
Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 09:02 AM
Serious BL listeners will remember our "New Tocquevilles" series of interviews with foreign-born observers of America, which included Peter Jennings, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Isabel Allende.
Now former Secretary of State (and Jamaican-American) Colin Powell has won the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize for his 1995 autobiography "My American Journey".
["Colin Powell picks up French book prize for autobiography" - Yahoo News]
Is the Franco-American relationship thawing? Or did the selection committee catch Powell's recent maybe-culpa on 20/20?
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