Tocqueville's Discovery of America

by Leo Damrosch

Book Overview

Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America , was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America , the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374278172
• ISBN13: 9780374278175
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"