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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics) (13th Edition) by Alexis De Tocqueville, Gerald Bevan (Translator), Isaac Kramnick (Editor) Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-14-044760-1 / 0140447601 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044760-6 / 9780140447606 A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologistIn 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 |