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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204942
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America (Abridged) written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgments -- including his discussions of enlightened self-interest and the public's influence on ethical standards. Judicious notes and a thoughtful introduction offer aids to the understanding of a masterpiece of nineteenth-century social thought that continues in our own day to illuminate debates about the roles of liberty and equality in American life.
Author : Alexis de Toqueville
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Toqueville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Also, Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into "soft despotism" as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. He observes that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable. Tocqueville also outlines the possible excesses of passion for equality among men, foreshadowing the totalitarian states of the twentieth century as well as the severity of contemporary political correctness.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521859557
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tocqueville on America After 1840 written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tocqueville on America after 1840 provides access to Tocqueville's views on American politics from 1840 to 1859, revealing his shift in thinking and growing disenchantment with America.
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553900382
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis De Tocqueville and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival." For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember.
Author : George Wilson Pierson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855061
Total Pages : 1764 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tocqueville in America written by George Wilson Pierson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451601612
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Signet. This book was released on 1967-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its "democracy." The book he wrote on his return to France, "Democracy in America," is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. When it was published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of "Democracy in America"--only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840--was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of Tocqueville's language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocqueville's thought as he held it rather than to restate it in comparable terms of today." The result is a translation with minimal interpretation, but with impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references and a masterful introduction placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy and statesmanship.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781698270791
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demoncracy in American is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada (modern-day Quebec) and Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario).After they returned to France in February 1832, Tocqueville and Beaumont submitted their report, Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France, in 1833. When the first edition was published, Beaumont was working on another book, Marie, ou, L'esclavage aux Etats-Unis (two volumes, 1835), a social critique and novel describing the separation of races in a moral society and the conditions of slaves in the United States. Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of the United States would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.
Author : Alexis Tocqueville
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915692
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis Tocqueville and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing its egalitarian ideals reflected the spirit of the age. This edition, the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, includes the rarely translated 'Two Weeks in the Wilderness', an evocative account of Tocqueville's travels among the Iroquois and Chippeway, and 'Excursion to Lake Oneida'. Translated by Gerald Bevan with an Introduction and Notes by Isaac Kramnick
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1931082545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147) written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer) This Library of America volume presents de Tocqueville’s masterpiece in an entirely new translation—the first to fully capture his style and provide a rigorous, faithful rendering of his profound ideas and observations Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in this landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the vital role of religion in American life, and the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest. He also probes the deep differences between the free and slave states, writing prophetically of racism, bigotry, and prejudice in the United States. Brought to life by Arthur Goldhammer’s clear, fluid, and vigorous translation, this volume of Democracy in America is the first to fully capture Tocqueville’s achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound political thinker.
