What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose ... It may be said that democracy separates and isolates the members of the family from each other, too. It loosens social ties, but tightens natural ones. Tocqueville prophesies a family of freedom as an escape from artificial feudal relations into a natural harmony of free individuals. But, later on, the modern family cuts itself ... and all human relations corrupted by the insane pursuit of gold.''59 In other words, O‟Ne...

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