1805-1859

Summarizes the observations of French sociologist Alexis de Toqueville about the structure of American democracy in the early 1800s.

Compares the America that Alexis de Tocqueville saw and wrote about in 1831 with America at the end of the twentieth century.

Chronicles the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the first foreigners to recognize and celebrate the grandness of the American project in the nineteenth century.