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Democracy in America, Volume 1 (Vintage Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Alexis De Tocqueville, Daniel J. Boorstin (Introduction), Phillips (Editor) Bradley, Francis Bowen, Henry Reeve, Daniel Joseph Boorstin Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-679-72825-2 / 0679728252 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72825-2 / 9780679728252 In 1831 French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to investigate its prison system. America was then a nation of 13 million people populating 24 states, with a largely unsettled territorial claim stretching westward to the Pacific. Seriously distracted from his original missi |