Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, america, democracy
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140447601
ISBN-13: 9780140447606

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 dem

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: classics, perennial, america, democracy
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0060956666
ISBN-13: 9780060956660

Tocqueville’s monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an American or, as in this case, a foreign visitor. 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 the distinguished Tocqueville scholar J.P. Mayer.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: america, democracy
Number of Pages: 722
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226805360
ISBN-13: 9780226805368

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country’s equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. When it was published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop’s new translation

Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: modern, classics, perennial, harper, america, democracy
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0061127922
ISBN-13: 9780061127922

The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most 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 edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished de Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer, is widely recognized as the preeminent translation.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: ireland, england, journeys
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0887387160
ISBN-13: 9780887387166

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Keywords: america, democracy
Number of Pages: 825
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0760752303
ISBN-13: 9780760752302

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: society, politics, letters, selected
Number of Pages: 431
Published: 1986-01-16
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0520057511
ISBN-13: 9780520057517

Correspondence by the eminent nineteenth-century French historian documents his polical views, his careers as a writer and politician, and his complex personality.