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When the aristocrat met democracy: Review of ?Toqueville?s Discovery of America?

By Alliance Alert

Claire Gillen reviews Leo Damrosch's Toqueville's Discovery of America in The Washington Times: "For Tocqueville, democracy could not be reduced to a mere form of government; rather, he described it as 'a state of mind as much as a political system,' consisting both of institutional structure and 'habits of the heart.' Mr. Damrosch discusses Tocqueville's insights into the problem of the tyranny of the majority. He also touches on some of Tocqueville's most prescient predictions, including the prophetic description of America and Russia as two nations destined to become world powers . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).