Democracy in America [sound recording] / by Alexis de Tocqueville.
2010
JK216 .T713 2010ab (Mapit)
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Title
Democracy in America [sound recording] / by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Uniform Title
De la démocratie en Amérique. English
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781441741943
1441741941
1441741941
Publication Details
[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, [2010]
Language
English
Description
24 sound discs (ca. 30 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number
JK216 .T713 2010ab
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.973
Distributor No.
Z1068 Blackstone Audio
Summary
In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the country's penal system--but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to America's unique democratic system as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, Tocqueville set about to study the culture, character, and institutions of the evolving nation. "I confess that in America I saw more than America," he said; "I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
Note
Compact discs.
Translated from French by J.P. Mayer.
Read by Frederick Davidson.
Translated from French by J.P. Mayer.
Read by Frederick Davidson.
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