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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. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in america as a possible model for postrevolutionary france, believing its egalitarian. Democracy in america chapter summaries course hero. This textbased pdf was prepared by the typesetters of the lf book. His ninemonth visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in. When it was published in 2000, harvey mansfield and delba winthrops new translation of democracy in americaonly the third since the original twovolume work was published in 1835 and 1840was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of tocqueville s classic thus far. Democracy in america is a canonical text in the curriculum of college history and political theory courses in the united states and, more than 150. Published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840 respectively, the french political thinker tocqueville wrote about america as a social scientist after his travels there, providing a wealth of observations and opinions which still hold. He wrote democracy in america after visiting the united states during which he observed various elements of the prison system. Many of his insightful observations american society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on.
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Born a french aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the reign of terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenthcentury france. What struck him most was the countrys equality of conditions, its democracy. French philosopher, sociologist, historian, and politician. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Tocquevilles main point in this section is that political freedom requires sacrifices, whereas the pleasures of equal. Many of his insightful observations american society and political system.