Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 creator text utu 2009 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome deuxième" by Alexis de Tocqueville is a political and social treatise published in 1840. Following his travels through 1830s America, Tocqueville analyzes democracy's influence on society, ideas, and intellectual life. He examines democracy's potential dangers, including the risk of "soft despotism" and tyranny of the majority. The work explores how democratic passions, particularly the desire for equality, might threaten individual liberty and freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_la_d%C3%A9mocratie_en_Am%C3%A9rique Release date is 2009-11-21 Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Original publication data not identified United States -- Politics and government United States -- Social conditions Democracy -- United States JK Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30514 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30514 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133709.0 30514