{"product_id":"democracy-in-america-in-two-volumes","title":"Democracy in America (in Two Volumes)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life--the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all the social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes came \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis English-only edition of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/em\u003e features Eduardo Nolla's incisive notes to James Schleifer's English translation of the French text, with extensive reference to early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials: \"This new \u003cem\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/em\u003e is not only the one that Tocqueville presented to the reader of 1835, then to the reader of 1840. . . the reader will see how Tocqueville proceeded with the elaboration of the main ideas of this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville\u003c\/strong\u003e (1805-1859) was a French writer and politician.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEduardo Nolla\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor at the Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames T. Schleifer\u003c\/strong\u003e is emeritus Dean of the Library and Professor of History at the College of New Rochelle and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987779780839,"sku":"9780865978409","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3696e3b8-fd86-4513-a230-85b4d15e9dd7.jpg?v=1776396206","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/democracy-in-america-in-two-volumes","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}