Cook, William R. (William Robert)

Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOC

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic de Tocqueville

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 TOC