Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America

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Alexis de Tocqueville, \"Democracy in America [Audiobook]\"
Knowledge Products | 2006 | ISBN: 0786169796 | MP3@160 kbps | 2 hrs 48 mins | 268.32 Mb

Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America. The democratic concept of equality was emerging as a political reality in America, and it threatened the aristocracy of Europe; it produced a society of individualists hungry for self improvement. In this classic treatise, Tocqueville weighed the advantages of democracy against its dangers. He asked: Is the tendency toward equality a tendency toward liberty? Can the majority be restrained to protect the freedom of individuals and minorities?

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