{"product_id":"tocquevilles-discovery-of-america-9780374532598","title":"Tocqueville's Discovery of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexis 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, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In \u003ci\u003eTocqueville's Discovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831-32, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDamrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, \u003ci\u003eTocqueville's Discovery of America \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4951083\"\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374532598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374532591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO006000\"\u003eHistorical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS037060\"\u003eModern | 19th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of several works, including \u003ci\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665953886445,"sku":"9780374532598","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_236ed10e-79e9-4926-9f5c-7015f8271f51.jpg?v=1649427974","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/tocquevilles-discovery-of-america-9780374532598","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}