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Democracy in America
Democracy in America
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
This volume contains the entire two volumes of Tocqueville's classic study in a completely new translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition edited by the distinguished Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer. All essential quotations by Tocqueville have been verified and given precise references, and the two spe...  more »
ISBN: 155458
Publication Date: 1969
Pages: 778
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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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buzzby avatar reviewed Democracy in America on + 6062 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
Mass market paperback, abridged (if you've ever read the original, you'd understand why).
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Helpful Score: 4
A good abridgement of a classic.
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Helpful Score: 2
I highly recommend reading Democracy in America. I do not highly recommend this version - some of the "abridging" that was done deleted out some of the less flattering views of Americans that De Tocqueville expressed. In other words, this is how this particular translator wished De Tocqueville to have written about America. Choose another version if you actually want to know what DT said.
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