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Democracy in America
Democracy in America | Alexis De Tocqueville
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was "Democracy in America," a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing deomcratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated"Two Weeks in the Wilderness," an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and"Excursion to Lake Oneida." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."
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Kimberlone
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#FallTreasures #Day17 #ConstitutionDay

I always remember that Sept. 17th is Constitution Day! In college, I was part of a leadership fellowship/honors program that emphasized American history and politics. Every year we gathered to read the Preamble to the Constitution in our library. I was required to take a class called The American Political Tradition, which inspired my (pre-Hamilton) love of A. Ham; the tagged book was a required text.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That‘s awesome!!! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸 3y
Eggs Great post 👏🏻🇺🇸👍🏼 3y
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SomedayAlmost
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Now everyone, including me, has to act like it. #AmericaMustDoBetter

Meaw_catlady Black Lives Matter! ❤️ 4y
JoScho ✊🏼🖤✊🏼 4y
Shawn898 Yay to Marxist movements 👏 4y
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Trace
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First volume was amazing. Volume II not so much.

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Eggs
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Texreader Excellent quote 5y
Eggs Thank you 🙏🏻 @Texreader 5y
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SomedayAlmost
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Proud to stand with fellow Texans against imprisoning children at the internment camps along our borders! History will judge us for these atrocities. #closethecamps #humanrights #endChildinternment

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MarriedtoMrT Thank you! 5y
SomedayAlmost My cousin and her church group cajoled my tired mama self there and I am so glad. Texans do not support the internment of children, even if our self-serving senators do! 5y
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SomedayAlmost
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Are you registered, American Littens? Register today so you can have your say! #register #vote #democracy #nationalvoterregistrationday

CouronneDhiver What kind of election is coming up? 6y
SomedayAlmost @CouronneDhiver Mid-term congressional elections (Beto for TX!) as well as state elections (for governor etc) and local elections (for sheriff, & in some states, judges are elected and not appointed, so local elections can be very important.) Thanks for your interest. 😃 6y
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BethFishReads Me too! 6y
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ladyonequestion
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Surprisingly readable. Currently about the history of the settlers. #SerialReader #booksihaveneverread #bigbooks

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Librarianaut
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Happy Independence Day, ya'll!!! I ❤️ my country! 🇺🇸

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Abailliekaras
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It might be time to read Democracy in #America ... And I love Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and have listened to (but not read) Letter to America. All the rest are TBR! #rockinmay

Cinfhen Looks like my AP American History syllabus 😚 7y
bookishkai I'm laughing to myself because I totally saw "Alistaire Cookie" not Cooke, and am suddenly back in my childhood watching Cookie Monster host Masterpiece Cookie on Sesame Street. 7y
Abailliekaras @Cinfhen I can run my own history course right here! 😉 @bookishkris 😝 7y
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CrinolineDream
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Downloaded the #serialreader app after seeing several posts about it (thanks, fellow Littens), and am loving it. History and civics books can be dry, but reading in daily installments helps. This one, however, has drawn me in. Alexis de Tocqueville was a wise and perceptive man, and this book is still relevant. #history #government #civics

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Catecaterina
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How strange does it appear that nations have existed, and afterwards so completely disappeared from the earth that the remembrance of their very names is effaced; their languages are lost; their glory is vanished like a sound without an echo; though perhaps there is not one which has not left behind it some tomb in memory of its passage!

RaimeyGallant A belated welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon And here's a compilation of Litsy tips that some of us put together:
https://raimeygallant.com/2017/10/31/litsytips/
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GoneFishing
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Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

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GoneFishing
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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

LeahBergen Ha!! 8y
tpixie Ha! Or woman!! There has to be better women choices too! We will find her!! 8y
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auntie_jenn
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early voting starts tomorrow! gotta study up 🤓

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SerialReader
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"I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."

Just added this to Serial Reader. No reason why.

BookishMarginalia I love that reason! 8y
ApoptyGina69 I own this, but I have merely paged through it to date. It's huge! Must be a lot of episodes/chapters on @SerialReader. Good choice! Post updates and I'll surely get inspired. 🙂 8y
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As a history/philosophy/ethics major I read (past tense) a good amount of political books. Most are in my parents house. I have a huge TBR stack of political/sociology books here, but if you're looking for an political book, read DinA. Tocqueville's analysis, critiques, and predictions were written 200 years ago but they are still eerily applicable. I challenge you to look at the US & democracy the same way after finishing. #augustphotochallenge

BookishFeminist Oof this was a clunker I had to read too. I also read all his stuff on Algeria for my college thesis. 😳 insightful but DENSE AF. 8y
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kellysue
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"The older one gets, the more it becomes clear that it is a great mistake not to have been brilliant when very young." -- from the introduction, by Joseph Epstein

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