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De Tocqueville : Selections from Democracy in America : DeTocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville was only twenty-five when he arrived in the United States for a visit that lasted less than a year. His original purpose was to produce a report on the penal system, but this was soon followed by the first volume of IDemocracy in America/I. It was immediately recognized as one of the great classics of political theory.brbrIn France, revolution had produced only anarchy and terror. For Tocqueville, the success of the American experiment is a cause for wonder, and he looks to provide an explanation. At the same time he is fully alive to the risks inherent in popular government, above all its tendency to produce a tyranny of the majority.brbrThe French statesman and writer BAlexis Charles Henri Maurice Cl

Pages: 392

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Barnes & Noble

Release: October 24, 2005

ISBN: 0760777934

ISBN 13: 9780760777930

De Tocqueville : Selections from Democracy in America : DeTocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Alexis de Tocqueville was only twenty-five when he arrived in the United States for a visit that lasted less than a year. His original purpose was to produce a report on the penal system, but this was soon followed by the first volume of IDemocracy in America/I. It was immediately recognized as one of the great classics of political theory.brbrIn France, revolution had produced only anarchy and terror. For Tocqueville, the success of the American experiment is a cause for wonder, and he looks to provide an explanation. At the same time he is fully alive to the risks inherent in popular government, above all its tendency to produce a tyranny of the majority.brbrThe French statesman and writer BAlexis Charles Henri Maurice Cl

Pages: 392

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Barnes & Noble

Release: October 24, 2005

ISBN: 0760777934

ISBN 13: 9780760777930

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