Democracy in America : an annotated text backgrounds interpretations
- New York W.W.Norton & Company 2007
- xvi, 856 p. ; 24 cm
- Norton critical edition .
Includes bibliographical references.
Original work was written by Tocqueville, a French citizen who visited America in 1831 and published this account of American democracy in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. This is the third English-language translation.
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Democracy United States Politics and government United States History 1815-1861 United States Social conditions To 1865 Equality Liberty Egalitarianism Individualism Populism Laissezfaire Tyranny Fedealism