Alexis de Tocqueville, French Investigative Writer born

Tocqueville in Cleveland

Propped Productions on Instagram: "We’re on a weathered foundation at Settlers Landing, next to a small bronze plaque with a big shadow. In 1831, a 25-year-old French visitor—Alexis de Tocqueville—passed through this riverfront while the canal era was turning Cleveland from outpost to port. He was collecting notes that became Democracy in America: town meetings and juries, clubs and churches, the pull of majority opinion and the small freedoms people made together. C-SPAN and the cable industry