The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution

History

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Europe

Collins/Fontana

The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people
Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago. 
This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.

Democracy in America: Abridged Edition

Scott A. Sandage

Americas

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

It has been said that this is the best book about the US and the best book about democracy. Having just read it, I can say it is even more. Tocqueville reflects not only on the US or on democracy, but his comparative approach sheds light on the Europe of his times and before, on the nature of aristocracy and the inevitable democratic revolution which was on its way across the civilized world. Tocqueville was a realistic aristocrat, sometimes nostalgic for the "greatness" of yesterday, but bearing no illusions whatsoever about the feasibility of stopping democratic change. So, he sets to find out what is it about democracy that can work, and what its inherent risks are. And he decides to tour the grandest democratic experiment ever attempted by Man: the United States.

Democracy in America

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

A Doubleday Anchor Book

Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an American or, as in this case, a foreign visitor. This special edition contains the entire two volumes of Democracy in America, based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished Tocqueville scholar J.P. Mayer.

Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago. 
This edition, based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition and meticulously edited by the distinguished de Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer, is widely recognized as the preeminent translation.

Democracy in America (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.

University of Chicago Press

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. When it was published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America—only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840—was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of Tocqueville's language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocqueville's thought as he held it rather than to restate it in comparable terms of today." The result is a translation with minimal interpretation, but with impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references and a masterful introduction placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy and statesmanship.

Reference

De la Démocratie en Amérique, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville, Vol. 1 of 2HE original of this work, edited by M. Gustave de Beaumont, is already well known and widely circulated in France.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Essays & Correspondence

AS NEW, stated limited edition, Prussian blue cloth over boards w gilt fleur di lis on front and back cover, gilt font on spine, red slik page marker ribbon, illustrated slip case. Book appears unread. Perfect condition without any writing, marks, tears. Slip case is also in same excellent condition. A presentation note with the signature of one of the executives(assumed-can't read writing) of Westvaco is included. GIFT QUALITY.Beautiflly designed and illustrated.A classic, "Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven hundred years."

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Westvaco Corporation

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The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution

Democracy in America: Abridged Edition

Democracy in America

Democracy in America

Democracy in America (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

Democracy in America

De la Démocratie en Amérique, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Democracy in America