Democracy in America, in English translation, both volumes in a single file

The classic work of political science, based on De Tocqueville's observations of America in the 1830s. According to Wikipedia: "Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies."