Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147)

An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society — “the bible on democracy” ( The Texas Observer ) This Library of America volume presents de Tocqueville’s masterpiece in an entirely new translation — the first to fully capture his style and provide a rigorous, faithful rendering of his profound ideas and observations Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its p