Sarmiento's Travels in the U.S. in 1847

by Joseph R. Strayer

Book Overview

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon. Full of shrewd social commentary and unique vignettes of the America of this period-of Boston, for instance, where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691046026
• ISBN13: 9780691046020
• Release Date: November 1970
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.