Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy in America / de la Démocratie En Amérique (in Four Volumes)

Historical-Critical Edition of de la Démocratie En Amérique

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Text in English & French. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine months in the U.S. they studied not just the prison system but every aspect of American life, public and private -- the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes of what he had seen and heard came the classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique, published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first...