Democracy in America is a dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book which follows Tocqueville and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, from their landing in New York in May of 1831 through their departure nine months later. Presented here are two…
Democracy in America is a dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book which follows Tocqueville and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, from their landing in New York in May of 1831 through their departure nine months later. Presented here are two preview panel discussions reviewing these extraordinary shows and how de Tocqueville's book relates to America and France today.
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"I do not see America. I see more than America. I am trying to make out the image of Democracy itself... with its inclinations and its passions!"
De La Démocratie en Amérique published in two volumes is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.
He begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. He observed that over the previous seven hundred years the social and economic conditions of men had become more equal. The aristocracy, Tocqueville believed, was gradually disappearing as the modern world experienced the beneficial effects of equality. Tocqueville traced the development of equality to a number of factors, such as granting all men permission to enter the clergy, widespread economic opportunity resulting from the growth of trade and commerce, the royal sale of titles of nobility as a monarchical fundraising tool, and the abolition of primogeniture
1. Where Could I Be Better Off?
2. The Governor in the Boarding House
3. The 4th of July in Albany
4. The Arc of Civilization
5. Any Woman is a Lady
6. The Cement of Democracy
7. The Cold Water Army
8. The Heavenly Prison
9. The Tyranny of the Majority
10. Common Sense and Moonshine
11. The Chief Instrument of Freedom
12. The Aristocrats of Freedom
13. The Happy Rep..
