num_pages: 778
description: Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an American or, as in this case, a foreign visitor. This special edition contains the entire two volumes of Democracy in America, based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished Tocqueville scholar J.P. Mayer.
language: English
title: Democracy in America
titlecomplete: Democracy in America
genres: Political Science, American, Politics, Philosophy, American History, Classics, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, France
ratings_count: 25226
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Non-fiction, awardedAt: -4260182400000
name: Prix Montyon
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics