Democracy in America

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by Alexis de Tocqueville

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.

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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America