Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont
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A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.
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Democracy in America
1841, J. & H.G. Langley
in English
- 4th ed., rev. and corr. from the 8th Paris e
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Includes bibliographical references.
"The complete and unabridged volumes I and II."
Originally published: London : Saunders and Otley, 1835.
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