Democracy in America Vol 1

Name: Democracy in America Vol 1
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
ISBN: 9781662141898

Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

Narrator: Delaney Carrol, Jonathan Myers, Dorine Oliver, Gonzalo Burton, Leandro Stuart, Luigi Simmons, Aaron Atler

Unabridged: 17 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: EXQ Studios

Published: 02/02/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Science, American Government

Synopsis

In 1831 French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to investigate its prison system. America was then a nation of 13 million people populating 24 states, with a largely unsettled territorial claim stretching westward to the Pacific. Seriously distracted from his original mission, the 25-year-old Tocqueville ended up writing about America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy in ways so insightful and prophetic that today historians, professors, and politicians still consider his work Democracy in America a classic.

About Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies. He also coauthored The U.S. Penitentiary System and Its Application in France with Gustave de Beaumont and penned Recollections, which was published after his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by P.E.

“People want equality in freedom and, if they can't get it, they still want it in slavery.” - A. de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville (1850) - Théodore Chassériau 'Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world, like the present, where no......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

2021-01-11 I read this in college for an independent study course in Government my senior year (1976-7). I remember having difficulty with the language and focusing on other books in the course, but still liking this. And of course I have seen GREAT references to many aspects of this book many times......more

Goodreads review by Annie

Like a great counselor, de Tocqueville gets to the heart of America, making sense of our behavior. And like a real person, America’s greatest strengths can also be her pitfalls. With incredible powers of observation and interpretation, he illuminates the inseparable connection between our history & v......more