This compilation of letters, many unpublished in English before, spans his political career, his friendships, and his inner conflicts, revealing his ongoing battle between intellectual ideals and the harsh realities of the political ...

Democracy in America-Volume 2, written by legendary author Alexis De Tocqueville is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time.

Authored by Alexis de Tocqueville, a French diplomat, political scientist and historian, it is regarded as a classical account of the democratic system of the United States and has been used as an important reference ever since.

In this volume John Stone and Stephen Mennell bring together for the first time selections from the full range of Tocqueville's writings, selections that illustrate the depth of his insight and analysis.

When, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to study Democracy in America, the trial of nearly a half-century of the working of our system had been made, and it had been proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of "liberty regulated ...

Tocqueville examines the structures, institution and operation of democracy, and analyzes the lessons that Europe could learn from American successes and failures.

This Book Contains The First and The Second Volumes. Democracy in America published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840 is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Contained here is the unabridged second volume of that classic exposition as translated by Henry Reeve.

Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville observed over the previous several hundred years. The focus of the book is on why democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places.

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