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Toqueville in America
Category: History: U.S.: 19th Century
Author: George Wilson Pierson
Copyright/published Year: 1996 by Johns Hopkins Univ P
ISBN: 0801855063
Binding: trade Pap
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) has become a
touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity.
Taking as its topic the promise and shortcomings of the
democratic form of government, Tocqueville's great work is at or
near the root of such political truths as the litigiousness of
American society, the danger of the "tyranny of the majority,"
the American belief in a small government that intrudes only
minimally into the daily lives of the citizenry, and Americans'
love of political debate.
Democracy in America is the work of a 29-year-old nobleman
who, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of
Jacksonian America to inquire into the future of French society
as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government
similar to America's. In his magisterial Tocqueville in America,
George Wilson Pierson reconstructs from diaries, letters, and
newspaper accounts the two Frenchmen's nine-month tour and their
evolving analysis of American society. We see Tocqueville near
Detroit, noting the scattered settlement patterns of the frontier
and the affinity of Americans for solitude; in Boston, witnessing
the jury system at work; in Philadelphia, observing the
suffocating moral regimen at the new Eastern State Prison (which
still stands); and in New Orleans, disturbed by the racial caste
system and the lassitude of the French-speaking population.
Condition Information
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'like new' used copy.
Condition Description
Clean and unmarked. NO remainder marks. Sound, square binding.
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