# Democracy in America

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- Book: [Democracy in America](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america) ([Democracy in America.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md))
- Authors: [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexis-de-tocqueville), [Francis Bowen](https://www.bookquiver.com/francis-bowen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-569-2
- Published: 2003-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1831 Tocqueville 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's study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower. It remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.