would someday be a world power as would Russia, second, the race would prove to be the most intractable problem for the U.S. This book was famous for two accurate predictions, one, the U.S. He had stayed in the United States through February 1832 for about nine months, so intrigued by democracy, majority rule, and the absence of social hierarchy.ĭemocracy in America was first published in 1825, full of observations and interpretations, was written as a sort of warning for European readers “Is this what you want?” he asks. He had come to the United States in 1831 to study the prison system, which he did not do, instead, he wrote Democracy in America. It has been said that a French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the United States in the 1830’s, “understood us” in a way that few observers (foreign and domestic) have.įurthermore, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is often cited by present-day critics because so many of the observations in it seem extraordinarily suitable even more than one hundred and fifty years later.Īlexis de Tocqueville was born 1805 into a minor noble family, in which his grandfather had been guillotined during the French Revolution.
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