TY - BOOK AU - Tocqueville,Alexis de AU - Reeve,Henry TI - Democracy in America — Volume 1 AV - JK PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - United States -- Politics and government KW - United States -- Social conditions KW - Democracy -- United States N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America; Release date is 2006-01-21; David Reed and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Democracy in America — Volume 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville is a classic French work published in 1835. After visiting America in 1831 to study prisons, Tocqueville turned his observations into an examination of democracy and equality in early nineteenth-century American society. He analyzes how religion, politics, and economics shaped the nation's egalitarian culture, while questioning the costs of social mobility and restlessness. The work explores democracy as both an American example and a broader revolutionary force transforming the Western world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815 ER -