Donna's Reviews > Democracy in America

No getting away from the fact that this is a loooong book and it's always a challenge when you are reading a book in translation. Tocqueville is a Frenchman who toured America in the 1820s-30s and then wrote the book about the United States for his audience in France. His observations are relevant both in an outsiders view on the constitutional government and as compared to the aristocratic governments of Europe. More importantly are Tocqueville's observations on the American character itself--the sentiments, morals, and mind of the people populating the wide open spaces in the New World.

Tocqueville helped explain America to Europeans...and to Americans themselves.