Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 creator text utu 2009 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome quatrième" by Alexis de Tocqueville is a political and social treatise published in 1840. Following a ten-month journey through the United States in 1831, Tocqueville analyzes American democracy and its influence on society, ideas, and intellectual life. He explores the dangers inherent in democratic systems, including the tyranny of the majority and what he calls "soft despotism," while speculating on democracy's future and its potential threats to individual 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/30516 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30516 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133709.0 30516