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The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America
The ''Alexis de Tocqueville Tour'' was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont through the United States during their 1831-32 visit. It explored many of the themes that Tocqueville discussed in ''Democracy in America'', the two-volume work that he wrote based on his American travels. A C-SPAN School Bus traveled to each of the stops made by Tocqueville and Beaumont.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/nyregion/renewing-tocqueville-s-american-tour.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm〕 Many of the Tocqueville programs were segments of C-SPAN's morning news and call-in show, ''Washington Journal'', and they were timed to coincide with the anniversaries of Tocqueville and Beaumont's visits to those places. Typically, they were about 30 minutes long, and incorporated calls, e-mails, and faxes from viewers.
Professor John Splaine of the University of Maryland, College Park consulted on the series, and six other historians and academics served as advisors: Peter Lawler of Berry College; Daniel Mahoney of Assumption College; Harvey Mansfield of Harvard University; Ken Masugi of the United States Air Force Academy; Jim Schleifer of the College of New Rochelle; and Delba Winthrop of Harvard University.〔http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/80666-1〕
==Background==
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb described the basis for the Tocqueville project as follows:
"Out of that experience (1994 reenactments of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates ) and ''Booknotes'', this small town Midwesterner (to himself ) came again to the constant reference to Alexis de Tocqueville. Time and time again, left and right, Democrat and Republican, all the politicians would quote Alexis de Tocqueville—often incorrectly. It was amazing to me when I found out. There's a famous quote attributed to Tocqueville: "America is great because America is good. If America ever stops being good, it will stop being great." He just never said it. Presidents, President Clinton, former Speaker Gingrich, and lots of other politicians have constantly repeated that quote, and it's not true. So that was one of the small offshoots that we learned by going around the United States, stopping in 55 communities. We started, by the way, at his chateau in Normandy, France, where we did a four-hour live program on Saturday morning in May of 1995."〔http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/nl/99aug/lamb.html〕
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