Journey to America Author:Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clere Tocqueville, George Lawrence, J. P. Mayer, A. P. Kerr Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) visited the United States in 1831 as an assistant magistrate of the French government. His great work Democracy in America was published in 1835. This volume contains all of the notebooks Tocqueville kept during his American journey.