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Democracy in America
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Democracy in America
by Alex De Tocqueville

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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...
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by Hugh Brogan

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Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of...
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The Tocqueville Reader (Blackwell Readers)
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The Tocqueville Reader (Blackwell Readers)
by Olivier Zunz

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-343) and index....
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (03 Edition)
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (03 Edition)
by Alexis Tocqueville

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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville...
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Democracy in America (94 Edition)
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Democracy in America (94 Edition)
by Alexis De Tocqueville

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that polit?ical commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the soci?ety of the United States...
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Democracy in America
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Democracy in America
by Alex De Tocqueville

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The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American...
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Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (Bantam Classic)
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Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (Bantam Classic)
by Alex De Tocqueville

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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...
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Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society (Heritage of Sociology)
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Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society (Heritage of Sociology)
by John Stone

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Alexis de Tocqueville possessed one of the most fertile sociological imaginations of the nineteenth century. For more than 120 years, his uncanny predictive insight has continued to fascinate thinkers, and his writings have continued to influence our...
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Tocqueville in America
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Tocqueville in America
by George Wils Pierson

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"Wilson Pierson assembles an extraordinary amount of material about Tocqueville's nine-month tour: letters, newspaper accounts, memoirs. The result is a monumental companion, as illuminating about a classic work of history and sociology as that work is...
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Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide (Eminent Lives Series) (06 Edition)
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Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide (Eminent Lives Series) (06 Edition)
by Epstein

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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic, Democracy in America, published in 1835, not only offered a vivid account of what was then a new nation but...
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Tocqueville on American Character
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Tocqueville on American Character
by Michael Ledeen

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In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville, a twenty-six-year-old French aristocrat, spent nine months travelling across the United States. From the East Coast to the frontier, from the Canadian border to New Orleans, Tocqueville observed the American people and the...
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Democracy in America
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Democracy in America
by Alex De Tocqueville

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In the mid-1800s, a French political scientist named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to appraise the meaning and functioning of democracy. This extraordinary book, written as a result of his visit, contains his comments and criticisms...
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Democracy in America Abridged Edition
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Democracy in America Abridged Edition
by Alex De Tocqueville

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The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most comprehensive, penetrating,...
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Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (American Intellectual Culture)
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Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (American Intellectual Culture)
by Matthew J Mancini

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Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of...
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Democracy in America (04 Edition)
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Democracy in America (04 Edition)
by Alexis Tocqueville

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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 Democracy in America (1835-40), a landmark masterpiece...
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Writings on Empire and Slavery
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Writings on Empire and Slavery
by Alex De Tocqueville

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After completing his research for Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of similar attention. Although Tocqueville never published a book-length study of...
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Democracy in America Volume 1 From 1949 Edition
by Alexis Tocqueville

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Out of Alex de Tocqueville's travels through the U.S. in the 1830's came an insightful study of a young democracy and its institutions. This 2 volume edition presents Tocqueville's original text. Footnotes, bibliography....
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Democracy in America Volume 2
by Alex De Tocqueville

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Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley....
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Commager on Tocqueville
by Henry Stee Commager

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Commager explores the themes of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, his concern not so much with what Tocqueville says about America and democracy in the 1830s as with how his work illuminates the same subjects in the 1990s. The essays are...
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Democracy in America
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