Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop

Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop by Tocqueville, Alexis de. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226805320.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the countrys equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. When it was published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrops new translation of Democracy in America—only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840—was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocquevilles classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of Tocquevilles language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocquevilles thought as he held