ISBN-13
9780060008734
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publication Date
01 June 2007
Age Range
18 - 10 years
Dimensions
20.50 x 13.49 x 2.79 CM
Shipping Weight
0.34 Kg
Pages
464
Language
English
Grade Level
13 - 05
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.