Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville, Alexis de
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Democracy in America / De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville
/ Learn MoreIn 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States. 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 volume focused primarily on political society; the second, on civil…
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
/ Learn MoreIn 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life—the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all the social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville’s copious notes came…
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