In Democracy in America, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven hundred years. Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. The aristocracy, Tocqueville believed, was gradually disappearing as the modern world experienced the beneficial effects of equality. Tocqueville traced the development of equality to a number of factors, such as granting all men permission to enter the clergy, widespread economic opportunity resulting from the growth of trade and commerce. This Classic Timeless...

"Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve Volume II" from Henry Reeve. Henry Reeve, english journalist (1813-1895).

The first volume of Alexis de Toqueville classic text on American democracy. In English.

Democracy in America - De La Democratie en Amerique; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous seven hundred years. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. In his later letters Tocqueville...