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Written by Alexis De Tocqueville - Translated by George Lawrence - Audio book performed by Frederick Davidson - Unabridged Fiction - 13 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (March 1994)

PART 1 (OF 2 PARTS) OF AN UNABRIDGED RECORDING

"Democracy in America is a canonical text in the curriculum of college history and political theory courses in the United States and, more than 150 years after its publication, it continues to command the attention of scholars writing about the strengths and limits of democracy in general and of American democracy in particular. Tocqueville's two volumes on America (the first published in 1835, the second in 1840) established his reputation among his contemporaries as a keen observer of social and political practices and they inaugurated his career in French politics. In the 20th century, as mass culture and the tyranny of the majority have come increasingly to pre-occupy us, Tocqueville has been elevated to the status of a prescient political theorist, sometimes even a prophet." --The New York Times Book Review