Democracy in America — Volume 1 - Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America — Volume 1

By Alexis de Tocqueville

  • Release Date: 1859-04-16
  • Genre: Politics & Current Events
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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 edition presents Tocqueville's original text. Footnotes, bibliography. In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government.

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