Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)

by Gerald Bevan (Translator), Alexis Tocqueville (Author), Alexis Tocqueville (Author), Isaac Kramnick (Editor)

• Prizes: ','1','ChildrenBookAge: ','Book Overview: ','No better study of a nation\'s institutions and culture than Tocqueville\'s Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer. -The New York Times

  The Bradley edition of Tocqueville\'s classic is the best now available in English. -Charles A. Beard

  Professor Bradley\'s edition should remain the standard one for our time. -F. O. Matthiessen

  With an Introduction by Alan Ryan

  ','The French sociologist and historian, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was active in the law and served for a time as foreign minister. He also wrote L\'Ancien Regime. Gerald Bevan is the translator. Issac Kramnick is Professor of Government at Cornell and edited The Federalist Papers for Penguin.');">

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  2003

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  In 1831 Tocqueville 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's study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower. It remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.