num_pages: 722
description: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's 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 Winthrop's 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 Tocqueville's classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of Tocqueville's language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocqueville's thought as he held
language: English
title: Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
titlecomplete: Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
genres: France, American, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Classics, American History, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 25226
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Non-fiction, awardedAt: -4260182400000
name: Prix Montyon
publisher: University of Chicago Press