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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Democracy in America

Contents

  • Introduction
  • A Note on the Text
  • The Text of Democracy in America
  • Backgrounds
  • TOCQUEVILLE'S LETTERS
  • To Ernest de Chabrol, New York, June 9, 1831
  • To M. Louis de Kergolay, Yonkers, June 20, 1831
  • To Ernest de Chabrol, Hartford, October 7, 1831
  • To the Countess de Tocqueville, On the Mississippi, December 25, 1831
  • To Eugene Stoffels, Paris, February 21, 1835
  • To Henry Reeve, Paris, March 22, 1837
  • To John Quincy Adams, Paris, December 4, 1837
  • REVIEWS
  • Sainte-Beuve * Le Temps, Paris, April 1835
  • Pellegrino Rossi * Revue des deux mondes, July-September 1840
  • John C. Spencer * Preface to the 1838 American Edition of Democracy in America
  • John C.Spencer * Preface to the 1840 American Edition of Democracy in America
  • The North American Review, July 1836
  • The United States Democratic Review, October 1837
  • The Knickerbocker: or The New York Monthly Magazine, September 1838
  • John Stuart Mill * London Review, October 1835
  • John Stuart Mill * Edinburgh Review, October 1840
  • Interpretations
  • David Riesman * Tocqueville as Enthnographer
  • Max Lerner * Tocqueville and American Civilization
  • Robert Nisbet * Many Tocquevilles
  • James T. Schleifer * From Egoism to Individualism
  • Catherine Zuckert * Not by Preaching: Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in American Democracy
  • Sheldon S. Wolin * Archaism and Modernity
  • Edward C. Banfield * The Illiberal Tocqueville
  • Daniel T. Rodgers * Of Prophets and Prophecy
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. * Individualism and Apathy in Tocqueville's Democracy
  • Sean Wilentz * Many Democracies: On Tocqueville and Jacksonian America
  • Henry Steele Commanger * Democracy and the Tyranny of the Majority
  • James T. Kloppenberg * Life Everlastin: Tocqueville in America
  • Tamara M. Teale * Tocqueville and American Legal Studies: The Paradox of Liberty and Destruction
  • Selected Bibliography