Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
Alexis de Tocqueville
ISBN: | 9780140447606 |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
Published: | 1 July, 2003 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
Alexis de Tocqueville
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey through America. The result was Democracy in America , a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics and institutions. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that...
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