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Democracy in America

Democracy in America( )
Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
ISBN:978-0-06-112792-2
Publication Date:Aug 2006
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.99
Book Description:

Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains one of the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago.

This edition, based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition and meticulously edited by the distinguished de Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer, is widely recognized...
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Book Details
Pages:800
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / American Government / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.31 x 8 x 1.28 Inches
Book Weight:1.23 Pounds
Author Biography
de Tocqueville, Alexis (Author)
French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil to an aristocratic Norman family. He entered the bar in 1825 and became an assistant magistrate at Versailles. In 1831, he was sent to the United States to report on the prison system. This journey produced a book called On the Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), as well as a much more significant work called Democracy in America (1835--40), a treatise on American society and its political system. Active in French politics, Tocqueville also wrote Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), in which he argued that the Revolution of 1848 did not constitute a break with the past but merely accelerated a trend toward greater centralization of government. Tocqueville was an observant Catholic, and this has been cited as a reason why many of his insights, rather than being confined to a particular time and place, reach beyond to see a universality in all people everywhere.

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