Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
Tocqueville's Lesson
By Gordon S. Wood
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
University of Chicago Press, 722 pp., $35.00
'Democracy in America is at once the best book ever written on democracy and the best book ever written on America.' So claim the editors of this new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. These are indeed bold judgments, but certainly defensible ones. In fact, I am hard put to come up with a better book on democracy or a better book on America.
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