>> next, "toqueville's discovery of america." harvard professor leo damrosch discusses the journey of 18th century political thinker in the new world. this is about one hour. >> professor damrosch is there earnest birnbaum professor of literature here at harvard. research interests including the puritan imagination, romanticism and the enlightenment. his last book, jean-jacques rousseau, "restless genius" was a finalist for the national book award and bundy winship award. professor damrosch's new book describes the nine-month journey that tocqueville took throughout the fledgling united states and served as the basis for his landmark treatise, democracy in america. ..

>> now please join me in welcoming leo. [applause] >> thank you, very much,

rachel. it's a particular pleasure to speak at this store. as rachel described it, it was a nine-month journey in the united states in 1831 and 1832. he and his good friend were in the 20. with a career they hoped in the law and government. but the 1930 -- 1830 revolution had just happened, the families were conservative and wanted the monarchy back. the employers were subpishes about their loyalties. they thought it might be a good idea to get out of france and find something useful to do. they had an arrangement for the american penitentiary system. which is not exciting now, but

in those days penitentiary were considered a breakthrough. jails in europe were just holding tanks. both sexes, charms with everything from picking pockets to killing people were thrown together to get on the best they might bribing the jailer and teaching each other techniques. the idea that it would come out a better human was an inaugural program. in france, the prisons were controlled from the administration. if you changed one, you had to change them all. in america, there were all kinds of different loyal arrangements. that was the idea. to study how it's done in philadelphia and boston and so on. really what they wanted was to study democracy. they both believed deeply, that was it was the future. it's not going to be reversed. and whereas france seemed

frighteningly unstable, because everybody remembered the terror that the french revolution collapsed into. the parents misplaced for three days, going to the guillotine, because they felt when they were let out instead of killed, his father was 21, and his hair had gone completely white. then it followed the dictatorship of napoleon. why was america so stable? how did it manage for 50 years to have a thriving democracy? this was really the agenda. it was my own voyage and discovery when i got into the project, i realized we have books about the founders and we don't read a lot about jacksonian america. the quite old fashioned world view that the founders had.

jackson was the first populous president. he had been in office since 1828. the country was expanding enormously into the hinder land. it was extremely commercial in a way that was still unknown in europe, even in england, and it was gal tearian that as you say from the start, however, much must be the gap between the rich and poor, you weren't born into a status which you might not rise. everyone in principal might change their life. this was an ideology, fate, that was not just new to him, but almost inspiring. as mentioned, i same to this from russo, but russo was one of the three of favorite authors. i'll mention one way in which it was so. what interested me now is how ideas which may seem like abstractions, i think always

arise from people's life experience and from their needs. certainly true with russo as i tried to show in the biography of him and it was true of tocq. not only from his needs, but american people. democracy in america is written in the kind of olympian, even row mote way. it was meant to be dispassionate in the turbulent politics of europe. he himself was complicated, melancholy character than the style he developed for his political writing. above all, it was incredibly good listener. so much that informs democracy in america is not the fruit of his solitary meditation. it comes directly from the

people tocqueville comes from. probably the american that impressed him the most, all the way to indian chief, pioneer farmers. he listened to anybody that seems to have something to tell him. as rachel said in the review, they were very human young men. they were interested in women. they flirted all the time with american girls. i already saw a blog online that headlined it's little mention of my book. tocqeuville was really into hot american chicks. the american girls didn't seem to act on it. there was kind of not prude re, but the moral oppression that

they tried to understand. as with everything that tocqueville did, it developed into the stories that the family -- i won't go into the topic at length, the family is given a kind of moral centrality, kind of emotional heart of the american experience as a counterweight to individualism. and the way sexual relations were generated by the demand, it wasn't inherited by the puritan morality like a lot of americans thought. translation tend to be stiff. it is because, in fact, he did cultivate a very classical kind of french style balanced and rather abstract. if you just put it straight into english, it does sound dull. it's very eloquent in french.

his writing and letters home and diaries that were not the final formal product is often quite romantic. and always quite eloquent. i've tried really hard in this book to make him speak with a fresher and more human voice. and i'll try to give awe couple of examples of that later on this evening. his english, not so much. and i realized quite early inning project i realized what an advantage that was. most of the people that visited america were middle-class english men and women. without meaning to be slobbed, they thought every americanism was the most appalling. it grated on their ears. they are forever putting americans down in ways that are really quite unjust and inappropriate. one the worst is francis who spent two rather peculiar years and wrote a book denouncing america after she went home. she's the mother of anthony.

the famous novelist. she collected americanisms because she hated them go the whole hog, keep cool mother, i know a thing or two. you read them. you think what's so bad? he liked it. because he didn't have the nigh -- nuances. he didn't have that. it got better and better. it's obviously a lot of people were having their legs pulled and couldn't tell. harriet was wonderful. her book deserves to be read on the american character. she talked about writing in a stagecoach and hearing somebody say so and so is a smart fellow, isn't he? he, he couldn't see through a ladder. he didn't collect those so much. but he was vested in terminology that had no translation in french. because he saw how profoundly

symptommic it was. for example, a gentleman in france it meant well born. in america, it was any adult male. he was very struck how that turned and evolved in english and even more american english. they don't have the word peasant. they have farmers. they don't have a person who can't own his own land and share on the systems level. we don't have peasants. servanting, he said. but americans preferred to be called the help. they have taken a job. they are doing their part. their employer is paying them. they are not born into the servant class. they certainly don't have the term in french which was common for the lowest kind of household servants. americans don't have masters with the ugly exception of slave

owners in the south. they prefer the dutch word boss. he was seeming terminology that spoke to the american character. a little bit about the trip, it is a kind of travel log. began in new york city. they stayed there for quite a while. it had 200,000 people. it made it the biggest city in america. boston was next and tied with philadelphia at 60,000. it wasn't the new york that we know. the gridded streets did not exist. new york stopped at canal street. everything north of there was farmland. there was a kind of dirt road that the led to the far away village of harlem. at one point, somebody they met on the ship invited him to the country place on the east river. it's a site of today of east 64th street. there was no skyline. when they got to boston, they said that's more like a city. we have hills. in new york, it's all one single story as far as the eye can

see. but it was already a commercial beehive in a way that was offputting and it did seem kind of clasp. all anybody talked about what so and so was worth. anybody is scrambling to make a fortune. at the same time, kind of exhilarating. because the french, certainly the aristocrats, pretended they didn't know how much money they had and where it came from. americans had the spirit and energy and entrepreneurship and tocqueville responded to and wrote warmly about. they spent some time at sing sing, it had just been built. the idea was that maybe if the wormers, that is prisoners, came out every day in gangs and broke stones or whatever their job was, they'd be doing something useful for society.

so long as they never spoke. amazing enough, under the threat with a bull whip, the prisoners not only opened their mouth, they weren't supposed to even exchange glances. tocqueville is fascinated by the prisoners who could have at any moment jump the guards and killed them out, kept because they were helpful to gather together and make a plan. and so in the midst of the land of the free, here was the most utter complete dysopiatism. it was a kind of puzzling paradox. he spent a while at the prison and wrote about it at some length. what he was seeing is discipline and punish, what he was seeing was the penitentiary was really not just a form of incarceration. it was a symptom of modern bureaucratic organization with

indeed modern survey lens in which the -- survey -- surveillance, and it was structural, and conceptual development and not just a place to put criminals. after that, they were desperate to get out and see the hinder land. i was once driving in washington with the english friend. second at dover. pulling within two. season, and third in the last six nationwide series races. >> how about some ten tennis? madrid masters. nadal, and nicholas, he's up 5-4, and nadal, into the net. undefeated on clay. down a set. >> up 4-2, and how about this forehand winner?

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it's a great day for baseball. hi everybody, time for "nats xtra" pregame. johnny holliday with phil wood tonight: the nationals take on the colorado rockies in game two of the double header. ubaldo jimenez and livan hernandez put on a pitching performance tonight. unfortunately, jimenez got the best of hernandez. >> here we are in the 4th inning with miguel olivo

homering that gave the rockies the 2-1 lead. then adam dunn ties its up with a home run off the 90-mile an hour change-up off ubaldo jimenez. in the 6th. two outs, ian stewart singles in tulowitzki. then bruney on the mound. he walks brad hawpe. he walks troy tulowitzki. two on, after a couple of outs. ian stewart doubles to right. that scores brad hawpe. jason giambi to second base and then clint barmes scores giambi and stewart. and that was the ball game right there, johnny. they got the nats out in the top of the 9th. >> 6-10-0 for colorado. the three runs inthe 8th inning off of bruney. hiplines gets the win. he has -- jimenez gets the win. he has the most wins ever for a

rocky through 35 games. hernandez lost both times, both of the losses to colorado. bruney, two innings and a walk and two home runs. adam dunn goes deep, an upper deck shot. his eighth of the year. stewart and barmes, 2-4 and two rbis apiece. bruney felt good, but not one of his better days. >> it wasn't my day, you know, i mean i go out there and i give the same effort every single day. it's hard for me to find a reason today why i wasn't any good. the effort level and if focus is there. i mean, i have to chalk that up as not a good day for me. >> he's got a good arm. too many times, first hitter walks, second hitter, walked. almost got out of it. but you know, it just wasn't good enough and it was a tough

situation because we got the double header. we're down so i don't want to use clipper and capps. for one down, that's what we're obviously putting bruney in there to hopefully stay one down. >> you have to feel sorry for bruney. he comes here from new york last year after winning the games and he hasn't been able to get the job done night in and night out. >> last year, the bullpen lost 39 games. they wanted to avoid a repeat of that. this is a guy coming from a world championship club. the scouting report was he throws really hard and he'll walk some guys. i don't think they're going to be tolerant of that much, much longer. >> they've shown that in the past. somebody is down there they're going to bring up. >> livan hernandez suffered the loss and both the losses have commote the hands of him -- come at the hands of jimenez and the rockies. >> we had a couple of chances

and hit the ball really good. got really lucky on the balls we hit. we fought and kept fighting and pitched good and he beat me a second time. >> you go against a guy like ubaldo, do you have to change the way you pitch? >> i go in and pitch my game. you know, nobody is unhittable. so you know, we play better, we win. so you know, we play hard and we try to win the game and you know, he comes in and pitches better than me and won the game. >> so the rockies take the opener today. the first of the day/night double head i have. 6-2 -- header. 3-2 they win it. debbi taylor is at coors field in denver and maybe somebody is stepping forward and taking a giant step to solidify the right field. that would be roger bernadina.

>> i think so johnny. it's been a situation of musical chairs out there and roger has had a lot of opportunities, i talked to him about that and being in the lineup on a day-to-day basis. >> just take it day-to-day and i do whatever i can to stay there. right now, things are going good and i want to keep it up and go from there. >> what do you think has been the key? you're on base again three times last night with great defensive plays. >> just keep doing the same thing i've done before. whenever you're confident, you go out there and things go for themselves. >> are you -- feeling more comfortable too now that you've been out there more consistently? >> oh yes, definitely. definitely. you know, they sent me down, i went there and did my thing and i keep my head up other there. you know, i always know i'm going to come back somehow, whatever it is. and now i'm here and then i'm

being -- i'm more confident and keep doing my thing what i've been doing, yeah. >> when the guy came to camp, ready to go, he was up on an up and downside earlier in the year, but it looks like he wants to take the right field job and he's playing great ball right now. same with the whole team. >> what's he like to play with? >> he's fun. he saves my legs a little bit running from gap to gap and having somebody with the aim ability as myself is a beautiful thing. >> roger just needs to play. we know what kind of talent he has. he's a great athlete with a great arm and speed. it's a matter of playing, he doesn't have a whole lot of experience coming in because he didn't play much last year and we're just hoping that this on the job training he can pick it up and be more consistent. that's all it takes for a kid with that much talent to be an

everyday big leaguer is the consistency. we know he can be that kind of player if he's consistent. >> roger told me too that tim foley and the whole team has been great to him. he built up 10 pounds of muscle in the off-season. he's bigger and stronger as we've seen. guys, back to you. >> only a couple of more pounds than phil and i in muscles. brought to you by just for men mustache and beard. bern key ma, .306, 11 hits -- bernadina, .306, 11 hits. just as roger bernadina gives the nationals the edge, you too can keep your edge with just for men mustache and beard. "nats xtra" pregame before the nats take on the rockies.

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all right, "nats xtra" pregame brought to you in part by dapp. time for the dapp 3.0 forecast. humidity is 44%. a possible chance of a thunderstorm later on this evening. the chance of rain about 20%. tap 3.0 is all you need to know and welcome back to "nats xtra" pregame. johnny holliday with mr. baseball, phil wood with you. i know you won't take my word for the forecast. back out to denver and debbi taylor is going to give us up to the minute conditions from coors field. >> it sounds like you had a complete forecast and a pretty good one. expecting maybe some showers tonight, but nothing like the next couple of days, it looks like all the bad weather is passed up and heading east. john lannan threw a bullpen session and said he felt great

and he threw all his pitches and should be able to make his next scheduled start, tuesday in st. louis. also because of the double header today, they may go down to the minor leagues. olivo could come back on short rest the needed. that's the story from coors field, johnny, phil, back to you. >> let's look at the starting lineups tonight. first of all, for the colorado rockies. 6-2 winners today. you take a look at the lineup. carlos gonzalez, the center fielder, 1-4 in game one. a couple of triples the last four games and a couple driven in. 19 rbis his last 14 ball games. he'll lead off. seth smith in left field, hawpe in right field, troy tulowitzki will be the shortstop. todd helton at first, stewart at third, barmes the second baseman and jason hammel on the mound tonight for the colorado rockies.

now for the nationals. trying to bounce back from the 6-2 loss in the first game. ian desmond comes in the ball game tonight with a .263 averages 17 driven in and tied for fourth among national league rookies for rbis. runners in scoring position, desmond at a pretty good clip, .382. he's blanked in the first game. nyjer morgan in center, then harris in left, zimmermann, dunn in the clean-up spot. cristian guzman, roger bernadina back in right, desmond the shortstop, will nieves will watch and lewis atilano on the mound tonight. ian desmond, boy he plays so well, phil. both in the field and in flaw batter's box. >> ian desmond's career is

progressing almost the way it was predicted to. they said he should hit about .265, probably 14, 15 home runs and 65 to 70 runs batted in. he's on track for the numbers. his defense has gotten better. he's got great range at shortstop and a decent arm and you're looking at a guy again going to be a fixture at shortstop if he keeps his contract here for the next decade anyway. >> you've got a sudden left side of the infield there. >> again, he's a young guy. and as we see, he's 24 years ofage. major league baseball rookie leader for both leagues. jason heyward at 20. gaby sanchez with florida. desmond at 24 is the second youngest of the rookies having great seasons certainly with the bat. 17 rbis. again, and they've used him if various places in the lineup. the upper third, middle third

and bottom third. >> jim riggleman was asked, what's been the key so far to the success of ian desmond this year? >> i guess the key is just his athleticism. such a good athlete that you know, he's got a lot of minor league at-bats. played a lot of baseball. he's not a baby, he's 24 years old. he's -- you know, he's here at the right time. you know, he's got enough experience in the minor leagues. he's had his player development and he's a great athlete and you know, all those at-bats that he's had the last few years are kind of culminating into him being ready to play here. >> if i asked phil wood, which i will right now, if he had one year after the game to -- area of the game to work on, what would it be? >> i'd say throwing -- throwing in the field. he draws the occasional walk, has pop in the bat. but the thing about ian desmond, johnny is from day

one, from 2005 on, this organization has been completely sold on ian desmond as a future major league player and obviously, they taken their time. as jim just said. allowed him to develop in the minor leagues and this year, he was ready. >> more times than not, he's going to be a leader. he's got that -- even though he's a rookie, he talks to his teammates and urges them to go on. >> he's in the right place at the right time. this is a great, great clubhouse for a rookie. >> how about the pitchers tonight? we'll look at the starting pitchers. it will be atilano on the mound for the rockies as opposed to jason hammel on the mounds for the rockies when phil wood and i come back with "nats xtra" after this. [ female announcer ] welcome to busch gardens williamsburg,

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luis atilano tonight this evening getting the nationals back on track and going to split the double header today? split the series. been pitching pretty good, hadn't he? >> pleasant surprise for a guy -- you can't say he came out of nowhere, but he was very highly touted for the braves and was traded to the nats. had tommy john surgery and paid his dues in the minor leagues. solve starts, so far -- 106 starts. so far, he's 3-0. but the e.r.a. is under 4 in four starts. he's kept the other team off the board, he's a strike thrower, johnny. other than the one start against atlanta at home where he got a no decision and struck out five. he attacks the zone and keeps the ball close to the plate and this is a guy who's obviously had a great deal of success by not painting the corners, by not nibbling.

this is a guy that jim riggleman has a lot of confidence in because of that and obviously, this is a guy who needs to cut down on his walks. he's got more walks than strikeouts, but he gets a lot of ground balls and that's the sign of a major league pitcher. >> he paid his dues, eight years in the minors, only three runs in his three victories this year allowed by him and debbi taylor sat down tonight with the nationals starter. >> luis, your ability to come in here and contribute has been to help the team. your thoughts on that? >> just feel great about it. finally, i got the shot to do it. you know, and i'm just happy to be here and do it on the field and those things, you know what i'm saying? >> how much of a challenge is it going to be pitching here at coors field especially with the inclement weather we've had so far? >> pitch here or in chicago or

washington is always good. i mean, excited for me. that's why i'm here. i'm going to keep doing my best. hopefully, we get another good game tomorrow. >> okay, thank you very much, back to you johnny. >> and of course that would be coming up just a couple of minutes from now at coors field, he'll be opposed by jason hammel. he's a big kid, 6'6," 215. >> huge broke in with the tampa bay rays. coming off the d. l. with a strained right groin and we hate when that happens. had a minor league rehab start at triple a. seven innings, gave up four runs. he's going to give up four or five runs a game and get the occasional strikeout. fastball pitcher basically. a decent breaking ball and change-up. but he's a guy who has had decent success against the nationals. a small stamp of only three games, but an e.r.a. of only 4 against washington and this is a guy who on any given day, any major league

pitcher can beat any other team. but this is a guy again coming off the d. l.. you hope to catch him at a good time. >> last start against arizona, only six innings in a 5-3 loss. >> it's been a rocky start of the season for jason hammel of the rockies, given up a lot of hits and earned runs and walks. if the groin injury was a reason he had to basically adjust his mechanics, maybe he's got it back now. maybe not. >> a lot of nationals fans are workers why on thursday night, doug -- wondering why on thursday night, doug slaten got the win instead of miguel batista. we're going to find out why when we come back. ry ? without using any minutes ? im anyone on skype. droid can with skype mobile. one of thousands of apps that can run with other apps. from the ever-expanding android market. when there's no limit to what droid gets,

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please visit us at www.iloveonevoice.com. first question from chris in silver spring. on thursday night, why was slaten credited with the win if the nats were ahead when batista left the game and never trailed thereafter? >> well, if you look at the rule book, half the book is the rules of the game and the other half is the rules of scoring. it gives the official scorer the discretion to award the win to a team other than the one who was in when they went ahead. well, the official scorer in this case determined that batista did not pitch effectively and therefore was not necessarily entitled to the victory. so slaten came in pitched extremely well in his inning and awarded the win to him. >> the official scorer can do what he thinks? >> in that case, yes. >> bob johnson in west frederick, maryland has a

question. why are there not -- why are there no computers, laptops in the dugout for the manager to use? >> well, first of all, if you go back in the clubhouse, there are all kinds of lap to bees in the clubhouse. -- laptops in the clubhouse. but part of the idea is that all the information they need is already there. already printed out for him to use in the game. i also suspect there's some let's day suspicion that someone could hack into what the manager was looking at. so i think that's probably the reason the manager probably as much as the people who run the game don't want laptops actually in the dugout. >> speaking about managers, i don't think anybody can say enough good things about that guy right there. jim riggleman. the job he has done this year. >> i can't argue with that. he's the right guy at the right time in the history of this team. you look at what happened last year after he took over. the last 70 games, the high they finished on last season. him having the input with mick

rizzo in determining what players they would pursue in the off-season and essentially, the decisions he made during spring training and of course first and foremost probably the decision to make ian desmond the everyday shortstop. >> nats have one more game tomorrow after tonight then they lap up the series in colorado. you'll see that tomorrow on masn 2 inhd. then monday evening at 8:15. back home against the new york mets wednesday and thursday before the orioles come down from baltimore to face this ball club at nationals park for a big weekend series next weekend. luis atilano, do the wheels stay on with this guy? >> as long as he does what he's done. that is you know, throw strikes and basically, don't worry about getting runners on base. by a base hit. cut down on the walks and you

know, his stuff is kind of fringe, but he gets its over the plate. i think the fans -- . >> they're now 20-16 and 9-8 on the road, i think you will see more and more fans coming to nationals park as the season rolls on especially with store and strasburg on the horizon. >> i think the sports fans aren't noticing that the team is playing well. maybe they're awaiting the arrival of strasburg. >> i figure you have to have a lot of mets fans coming down and a lot of orioles fans next weekend. >> well, obviously, everyone's money is good at nationals park. >> they have yet to turn away anybody's money. thank you for joining us for "nats xtra" pregame before the nationals take on colorado. homers by giambi and miguel olivo and adam dunn with a shot for the nationals. they'll try to take one of the two and take a lead in the

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