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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320.973 EAN: 9780140447606 ISBN: 0140447601 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 992 Publication Date: July 01, 2003 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: July 01, 2003 Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 5791 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Oops935 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... Rating:  - an extremely interesting, and well writen book about AmericaA 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 Rating: - Wow, what a buy.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. Rating:  - Democracy in America BookBook was received in the condition that was described. Packaged well. Timely delivery. Rating: - Superb analysis of democracy in America and elsewhereAs 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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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