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Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

June 22, 2026

John Prideaux (0:03)

Alexis de Tocqueville is the nearest thing foreign correspondents have to a superhero. He arrived in America on a boat from France in May 1831, a young aristocrat on a mission. The US was still a long way off being a superpower back then. It was barely 50 years old. But Tocqueville caught a glimpse of what it could…

For my money, it's still the single most insightful thing ever written about the United States.

SPEAKER_2 (2:19)

I made choices, we made choices. Unfortunately, that let us here, right?

But it's also we made choices to have a sit in this room, which are now.

John Prideaux (2:26)

So we learning, and that's America.

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