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