Democracy in America
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Published in two volumes (1835 and 1840), Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is the classic study of American democracy and its meaning for the modern world. Based on his 1831 tour of the United States, it examines how the equality of conditions shapes politics, society, religion, and character, weighing democracy's promise of liberty against its dangers—above all the 'tyranny of the majority' and a soft, all-embracing despotism. Prescient and penetrating, it remains among the most influential works of political science and sociology ever written. (Imported as a flat chapter list across both volumes.)
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