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Condition: Fair. Alexis de Tocqueville's monumental Democracy in America is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-19th century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written. This special edition contains the entire two volumes of Democracy in America, based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, meticulously edited by distinguished Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer. Also featured are extensive appendices, including Toqueville's commentary on Cherbuliez's On Democracy in Switzerland. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) was born in 1805 in Verneuil, France. A historian and political scientist, he came to the United States in 1831 to report on the prison system. His experiences would later become the basis for Democracy in America. George Lawrence's] wonderful style has given us a work that will be a standard for many years. -- Library Journal.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Out of Alex de Tocqueville's travels through the U.S. in the 1830's came an insightful study of a young democracy and its institutions. This 2 volume edition presents Tocqueville's original text. Footnotes, bibliography.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork--a classic portrait of America's culture and people. Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago. This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) visited America in 1831 to experience what it was like to live in a great republicWhat struck him the most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracyThe book he published on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on AmericaIt is now the most frequently mentioned book about the United States, not only because it is the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on AmericaThe new translation of Democracy in America by Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop is only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840. It is a magnificent effort, preserving the elegance, complexity, and profundity of Tocqueville's original. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the intricacies of Tocqueville's language, with the stated purpose of conveying Tocqueville's philosophy as he held it.Mansfield and Winthrop's Democracy in America will become the authoritative version of the text due to the strength of the translation. Also included is a excellent and thorough introduction that places the work and its author in the broader context of political philosophy and statesmanship.As we approach the 160th anniversary of the publication of Democracy in America, Mansfield and Winthrop have given us yet another reason to rejoice. Lavishly prepared and produced, this long-awaited new translation of Tocqueville's profound and prescient opus will undoubtedly become the authoritative edition of Tocqueville's profound and prescient masterwork.…

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