Text in English & French. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine months in the U.S. they studied not just the prison system but every aspect of American life, public and private the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all social life of the young nation. From Tocquevilles copious notes of what he had seen and heard came the classic text De la Dmocratie en Amrique, published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volume focused primarily on political society the second, on civil society. Tocquevilles account of the travels and adventures of the two Frenchmen aimed to get down the truth about America, not only to praise the new countrys strengths but also to critique its shortcomings when these were all too evident to outside eyes. For Tocqueville, virtually every aspect of the new republic was fascinating the laws and the customs, the manners and the mores of a people so very different from the populations of the kingdoms of Europe. He was particularly interested in the success of democracy in America, specifically of republican representative democracy, which seemed to have failed elsewhere, most conspicuously in revolutionary France. Perhaps because Tocqueville, an aristocrat, was by no means sympathetic to "pure" democracy, which seemed tainted by its associations with the Terror of the French...

Binding: Hardback;3350 pages; Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc; Classification: JPHV; Weight: 5178 g; Dimensions: 218 x 242 x 170

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