No Bicentenário da excursão de Tocqueville

Na mesma Atlantic a não perder as crónicas da viagem que Bernard-Henry Lévy fez, nas pegadas de Tocqueville, pelos EUA. O autor vai procurando, por um lado "explicar" a América, o seu patriotismo, obsessão com a Bandeira, multiculturalismo, partidos políticos e, por outro, dar vazão à sua simpatia por aquele país:

A propósito da sua chegada a Seattle Lévy escreve:

"...I saw, floating like a torch between two motionless clouds, in a dark-pink sky entirely new to me, the tip of a skyscraper, the Space Needle, already completely lit up, which in my imagination suddenly condensed everything that America has always made me dream of: poetry and modernity, precariousness and technical challenge, lightness of form meshed with a babel syndrome, city lights, the haunting quality of darkness, tall trees of steel. Ever since I was little I've so loved saying gratte ciels - skyscrapers."