Lakier, Aleksandr Borisovich

A Russian Looks at America. The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier in 1857.

Chicago The University of Chicago Press 1979, First English edition. Translated from the Russian and edited by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story. Foreword by Henry Steele Commager. xli, [1], 272pp. plus 32 pages of illustrations. Notes and index. Black cloth. Bookplate on inner cover. A fine copy with dust jacket. Lakier's account was the first comprehensive description of America written by a Russian. First published in Russia in 1859, this first English language edition includes an excellent introduction by Henry Steele Commager who points out some illuminating similarities between Lakier's account and that of the celebrated observer of nineteenth-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville.

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