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OverviewAlexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831-1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leo Damrosch , Leo DamroschPublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780374278175ISBN 10: 0374278172 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 13 April 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Tocqueville's Discovery of America <br> Tocqueville's Discovery of America is lively, always interesting, and oftne touching. It also fills a gap in the literature that was deliberately created by Tocqueville himself. --Alan Ryan, The New York Review of Books <p> [A] scintillating new book . . . Remarkably, given the excitements and reach of Tocqueville's nine-month American trip, it is seventy years since the last full account of the itinerary. Leo Damrosch is well qualified to do the renovation. A distinguished specialist of eighteenth-century literature at Harvard . . . he is deeply familiar with Tocqueville's literary and intellectual contexts . . . Damrosch contagiously enjoys himself, and happily enters into the enthusiasms of the two young Frenchmen, as they let the strange, loud, free, placeless society disturb and excite them. --James Wood, The New Yorker <br> Leo Damrosch has provided a perfect accompaniment to [ Democracy in America ] . . . This lovely Praise for Tocqueville's Discovery of America <br><p>“[A] scintillating new book . . . Remarkably, given the excitements and reach of Tocqueville’s nine-month American trip, it is seventy years since the last full account of the itinerary. Leo Damrosch is well qualified to do the renovation. A distinguished specialist of eighteenth-century literature at Harvard . . . he is deeply familiar with Tocqueville’s literary and intellectual contexts . . . Damrosch contagiously enjoys himself, and happily enters into the enthusiasms of the two young Frenchmen, as they let the strange, loud, free, placeless society disturb and excite them.” —James Wood, The New Yorker <br> “Leo Damrosch has provided a perfect accompaniment to [ Democracy in America ] . . . This lovely book ought to delight those who already love Tocqueville's great work, for showing how it came to be. But it can also serve as a fine introduction for those just coming to Democracy in Americ Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |