Description
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat (1805-59), came to America in 1831 driven by a desire to witness the workings of a great republic. Having observed France’s struggle to maintain democracy following the upheavals of the French Revolution and Napoleon, Tocqueville was profoundly struck by the vibrancy of American democracy. His keen insights into the ingenuity of the American experiment are eloquently captured in “Democracy in America,” a seminal work that stands as one of the most well-crafted and widely discussed analyses of democracy and its manifestation in the United States.