cover art
Expand Image

Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)

by Alexis de Tocqueville
 
4.50 based on 24 reviews.

Media:

Paperback Book, 992 pages

Our Price:

 $9.92

List Price:

$12.00

You Save:

$2.08 (17.33 %)

 

 Find it at your local library

Product Description

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 democracy.

This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida.

Product Details

  • Media: Paperback Book, 992 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (July 01, 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 0140447601
  • ISBN-13: 9780140447606
  • Dimensions: 5 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.45 lbs
  • Note: Some of this information came from Amazon.com

Customers who bought this item also bought

$6.48 used, $7.98 new

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)
Thomas Paine

Paine's daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence...

$12.98 new

The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best wa...

$8.48 new

The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter

The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fath...

Place Order



$9.92
(Marketplace, Paperback, Used Good)

Already Own It?

We're accepting donations of this book to support non-profit literacy partners.

 
Family Literacy Special

Staff Picks

taff picks: New and used, from best-selling titles to best-kept secrets out of the corners of our warehouse, Better World employees share what’s on their night table. > View More Staff Picks (rss)

John's Pick

Hyperion
Dan Simmons

A Hugo Award-winning sci-fi classic, this is a must read if you have a sci-fi...