Democracy in America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Penguin Classics) Denik and lyrical on occasion

and lyrical on occasion

This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative

"--Harper's Magazine

Which can fly the highest

Democracy in America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Penguin Classics) Denik and lyrical on occasionA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th century America.