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Democracy in America is a masterful display of insight and foresight into all things American. Doubting whether the American experiment in equality could work, Tocqueville conjectured that democracy would erect a society that would succumb to a different...
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Democracy in America is a masterful display of insight and foresight into all things American. Doubting whether the American experiment in equality could work, Tocqueville conjectured that democracy would erect a society that would succumb to a different type of tyranny than that of a monarchy or aristocracy – that of the majority. Through detailed interviews with “the most informed men” he could meet, he offers an examination of American institutions and the fabric of American life.A two volume work, Democracy in America is divided into a series of chapters designed to tackle questions Tocqueville sees as key to understanding democracy, America, and its citizenry. The analysis covers the obvious elements of political and societal structure, as well as the social and cultural influences that shaped American democracy. It enables us to understand how others saw us – and in fact how we saw ourselves – in our nation’s youth, and will prompt readers to question whether the American experiment, with all that it promised at its beginning, has succeeded.
Autoren-Porträt von Alexis de Toqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) worked first as a magistrate and then as a government administrator, and early in his career he saw how quickly the winds of political change could shift in post-Revolutionary War France. Like his father, who had narrowly escaped execution in 1793, he fell out of political favor, due to his perceived Bourbon sympathies during the July Revolution. As a result, he and his friend Gustave de Beaumont were required to fund their nine-month visit to America themselves, even though they were ostensibly coming to complete a survey of the American penal system, then regarded as one of the most humane in the world, on behalf of the French government. When Tocqueville arrived in America in May of 1831 he was far more interested in his own questions about America’s political future, and Democracy in America is the result of extensive personal research on the subject.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexis de Toqueville
- 2002, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0594092892
- ISBN-13: 9780594092896
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2002
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