Educating democracy
Subtitle: Alexis de Tocqueville and leadership in America
By: Brian Danoff.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781438429618
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859 -- Influence; Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- United States; Democracy -- Study and teaching -- United States; Civics -- Study and teaching -- United States; Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Political leadership -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tocqueville on leadership and the education of democracy; title: The antifederalists and Tocqueville on democratic leadership and democratic authority; title: Lincoln and Tocqueville on democratic leadership and self-interest properly understood; title: Wilson and Tocqueville on leadership and the "character foundations of American democracy"; title: The vocation of the democratic moralist : Putnam, Tocqueville, and the education of democracy today.