Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/40) can claim to be the best book ever written about democracy and the best book ever written about America. David discusses what Tocqueville was expecting when he went to see American democracy for himself and what he actually found. Tocqueville was amazed and impressed by the American way of doing politics, but his fears about how its democracy might go wrong remain as prescient as ever.

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Volume 1 and Volume 2

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Democracy-America-Essays-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447601

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Tocqueville on Democracy

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Tocqueville on Democracy