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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (The Complete Unabridged Critical Edition, Volumes I and II) Alexis de Tocqueville's Masterpiece With Authoritative Commentary on the Text by J.T. Morgan and John Ingalls (NOOKbook Definitive Classics)
TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (The Complete Unabridged Critical Edition, Volumes I and II) Alexis de Tocqueville's Masterpiece With Authoritative Commentary on the Text by J.T. Morgan and John Ingalls (NOOKbook Definitive Classics)
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TOCQUEVILLE | ON DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
(The Complete Unabridged Critical Edition, Volumes I and II)
Alexis de Tocqueville's Masterpiece
With Authoritative Commentary on the Text by J.T. Morgan and John Ingalls
(NOOKbook Definitive Classics)
ABOUT DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
In Democracy in America, published in 1835, Tocqueville wrote of the New World and its burgeoning democratic order. Observing from the perspective of a detached social scientist, Tocqueville wrote of his travels through America in the early 19th century when the market revolution, Western expansion, and Jacksonian democracy were radically transforming the fabric of American life. One purpose of writing Democracy in America, according to Joshua Kaplan, was to help the people of France get a better understanding of their position between a fading aristocratic order and an emerging democratic order, and to help them sort out the confusion.Tocqueville saw democracy as an equation that balanced liberty and equality, concern for the individual as well as the community.
EXCERPT
"Instruct democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true instincts for its blind instincts; to adapt its government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day"
(The Complete Unabridged Critical Edition, Volumes I and II)
Alexis de Tocqueville's Masterpiece
With Authoritative Commentary on the Text by J.T. Morgan and John Ingalls
(NOOKbook Definitive Classics)
ABOUT DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
In Democracy in America, published in 1835, Tocqueville wrote of the New World and its burgeoning democratic order. Observing from the perspective of a detached social scientist, Tocqueville wrote of his travels through America in the early 19th century when the market revolution, Western expansion, and Jacksonian democracy were radically transforming the fabric of American life. One purpose of writing Democracy in America, according to Joshua Kaplan, was to help the people of France get a better understanding of their position between a fading aristocratic order and an emerging democratic order, and to help them sort out the confusion.Tocqueville saw democracy as an equation that balanced liberty and equality, concern for the individual as well as the community.
EXCERPT
"Instruct democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true instincts for its blind instincts; to adapt its government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day"
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