Democracy in America Audiobook by Alexis de Tocqueville

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/52/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Democracy in America Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 08-23-10 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes Genres: Classics, Nonfiction Publisher's Summary: In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the countrys penal system - but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to Americas unique democratic system as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, Tocqueville set about to study the culture, character, and institutions of the evolving nation. "I confess that in America I saw more than America, he said; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress." His resulting work, the classic Democracy in America, proved so insightful and prophetic that it continues to command the attention of historians, scholars, and politicians today. Critic Reviews: "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good." ( New York Times) It's hard to think of a work that has so influenced our understanding of the United States as thisstill the most authoritative, reflective set of observations about American institutions and the American character ever written. ( Publishers Weekly) "[George Lawrence's] wonderful style has given us a work that will be a standard for many years." ( Library Journal)