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Democracy In America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 a ...Show more
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the country's penal system--but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to America's unique democratic system as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, Tocqueville set about to s ...Show more
Democracy in America by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Signet Classics
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French nobleman and an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. His brilliant discussion of majority rule is still vitally relevant today.
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