Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Lakier's account is an uncommon view of America by a Russian, originally published in Russian in 1859 but unknown in English until this publication. It has a confident and optimistic conclusion, but also reveals how someone accustomed to despotism responds to a free society. Translated by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story. Foreword by Henry Steele Commanger. Illustrated. Index. xli, 272 pp. ISBN: 0-226813134.