Democracy in America
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Contributions
- Heffner, Richard D. - Contributor
- Gregorian, Vartan - Contributor
- Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) - Contributor
Publication
2010 - New American Library, New York, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
96,250 words, Guess
Page Count
385 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100451531604
- ISBN-139780451531605
- Library of Congress Control Number2012658064
- OCLC Control Number645479268
- Better World Books9780451531605
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25301889M
Classifications
- LCCCPB Box no. 3236 vol. 11
- LCCCPB
- DDC321.80420973 T
and 1 more
- LCCJK
Description
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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