Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Tocqueville, Alexis de; Goldhammer, Arthur; Zunz, Olivier |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Date: | 2/16/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Democracy in America is arguably the most perceptive andinfluential book ever written about American politics and society. TheLibrary of America now presents Arthur Goldhammer’s acclaimedtranslation in a two-volume Paperback Classics edition. Winner of the2004 Translation Prize awarded by the French-American Foundation,Goldhammer’s elegant rendering is the first to capture fully theprecision and grace of Tocqueville’s style and the full force of hisprofound ideas and observations. Volume One (1835) and Volume Two(1840) are published separately, each with its own introductory essayby historian Olivier Zunz (Why the American Century?) exploringthe creation and evolution of Tocqueville’s masterpiece.
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