Word: aper
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...ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single most annoying flaw in Lévy's tome: overly long sentences. Still with us? If so, then you will emerge from the author's thicket of anecdotes, aperçus and subordinate clauses to find your mind stimulated and faith in America renewed. Oh, another problem: Lévy is French. That means a preoccupation with theory, and he duly invokes Althusser, Aristotle, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Lacan, Montesquieu, Nietzsche, Rousseau and a pantheon of other high domes...