The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. T…

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The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). Democracy in America, p.112
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The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). Democracy in America, p.112

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