title: Democracy in America: In Four Volumes
author:  Alexis de Tocqueville 
description: <em>Times Literary Supplement</em><br />October 8, 2010<br /><br />The bilingual Liberty Fund edition of <em>Democracy in America</em>, edited by Eduardo Nolla and translated by James T. Schleifer, provides an unprecedented insight into how Tocqueville's text was written and how its content evolved over time . . . . The great merit of the Liberty Fund edition is that it enables us, for the first time, to gauge the immensity of that undertaking . . . . What makes this edition of <em>Democracy in America</em> not only a new edition but also, as the editor remarks, a different edition is that the extraordinary complexity of the writing of Tocqueville's text is here made clearly visible to the reader. . . . Eduardo Nolla's new edition of <em>Democracy in America</em>, therefore, represents a landmark in Tocqueville scholarship and surpasses all editions previously published. The text is elegantly and faultlessly tranlasted by James Schleifer. The four volumes, with the French and English versions on facing pages, are produced to the highest quality and contain an excellently chosen set of illustrations.
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  ALEXIS
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  Democracy
  in America
  Specially Edited and Abridged for the
  Modern Reader by Richard D. Heffner
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  AOBERT A. WEINBERG
  A Great Political Classic
  Over a hundred years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, a
  young French nobleman and an
  astute
  political
  ' scientist, came to the United States to appraise the
  meaning and actual functioning of democracy in
  order to understand how it might serve to supplant
  the outworn
  aristocratic regime
  in Europe.
  In Democracy in America, the classic treatise on
  the American way of life which he wrote as a result
  of his
  visit, Tocqueville discusses the advantages
  and dangers of the majority rule which he thought
  could be as tyrannical as the rule of the aristoc-
  racy. He analyzes the influence of political parties
  and the
  press on
  the government,
  the
  effect
  of
  democracy on the
  social,
  political and economic
  life of the American people, and offe