Democracy in America

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent 9 months within the U.S. learning American prisons on behalf of the French authorities. They investigated not simply the jail system however certainly each side of American private and non-private life―the political, financial, spiritual, cultural, and above all of the social lifetime of the younger nation. From Tocqueville’s copious notes got here Democracy in America.

This English-only version of Democracy in America options Eduardo Nolla’s incisive notes to James Schleifer’s English translation of the French textual content, with in depth reference to early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and different supplies: “This new Democracy just isn’t solely the one which Tocqueville introduced to the reader of 1835, then to the reader of 1840. . . the reader will see how Tocqueville proceeded with the elaboration of the primary concepts of this e-book.”

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French author and politician.

Eduardo Nolla is a Professor on the Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid.

James T. Schleifer is emeritus Dean of the Library and Professor of Historical past on the Faculty of New Rochelle and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale College.