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Democracy in America: Introduction by Alan Ryan

Democracy in America: Introduction by Alan Ryan

Tocqueville, Alexis de
Ryan, Alan
Reeve, Henry

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Series: Everyman's Library Classics

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0679431349
ISBN13: 9780679431343
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: May 10 1994
Pages: 920
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.65 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.24
Language: English

Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the United States. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning of American democracy and the social, political, and economic life of its citizens, publishing his observations in 1835 and 1840. Brilliantly written and vividly illustrated with vignettes and portraits, Democracy in America is far more than a trenchant analysis of one society at a particular point in time. What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of Tocqueville's observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press, the strained relations among the races, and the threats posed to democracies by consumerism and corruption.

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