Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Creators: Isaac Kramnick, Gerald Bevan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Pages: 992
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0140447601
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
EAN: 9780140447606
ASIN: 0140447601
Publication Date: July 1, 2003
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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. 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 insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on democracy.
This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida.
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 Oops March 20, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
935 page book with no index.
Come on, you don't need one.
You can remember that part about the aristocracy of the law...
was just about here...
Or was it here...
Don't worry, I've got it...
Just a sec...
 an extremely interesting, and well writen book about America February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A book that lives up to its lofty reputation. Thoroughly engaging. A veritable bible of philosophy, and observation as regards the early appearance and history of our country.
H.P
Wow, what a buy. January 7, 2008
An excellent book that should be used as reading material in any high school or college course on government, its being, construction and operation. It is detailed and full of information that makes it one of the best books written concerning early colony operations. I do recommend this book for anyone interested in early America and its govenment.
 Democracy in America Book November 5, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Book was received in the condition that was described. Packaged well. Timely delivery.
Superb analysis of democracy in America and elsewhere October 22, 2007
As a sat to write this review I randomly opened my copy of Democracy in a page with this quote that I had highlighted: "When the taste for physical gratifications among [democratic people] has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all. It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. The discharge of political duties appears to them to be a troublesome impediment which diverts them from their occupations and business. [...] These people think they are following the principle of self-interest, but the idea they entertain of that principle is a very crude one; and the better to look after what they call their own business, they neglect their chief business, which is to remain their own masters". This is a small sample of what you find in Democracy... It is a superb book, with timeless truths about America and about democracy in general. I read the Everyman's Library edition by Knopf, and utterly enjoyed it: good quality paper, print, translation (based on Francis Bowen's), index. Don't rely on what others tell you about the contents of this marvelous book--dive in with a pencil handy to highlight the many good quotes and enjoy!
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