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Arthur Goldhammer, translator
Olivier Zunz, editor List price: $35.00 |
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, and the vital role of religion in American life.
Arthur Goldhammer's clear, fluid, and vigorous translation is the first to fully capture Tocqueville’s achievements as both a literary stylist and a profound political thinker. Here, in convenient PDF form, is the first chapter of Goldhammer’s new translation. In it, Tocqueville famously notes the "prodigious influence" equality exterts within American society and asks whether democracy will "stop now that it has become so strong and its adversaries so weak."
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