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Book Review
Nature 405, 617 (8 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35015148
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Simon Conway Morris1
In his famous work Democracy in America, first published in 1835, the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "I thought that the English constituted the most serious nation on the face of the Earth, but I have since seen the Americans and have changed my mind". Nothing much seems to have changed in the intervening 160 years, at least to judge from this book, which documents with painful clarity the continuing circus that passes, at least in some quarters, for American life.
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