Democracy in America / by Alexis de Tocqueville. The Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Contributor:

Bradley, Phillips, 1894-1982, editor.

Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895, translator.

Bowen, Francis, 1811-1890, translator.

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American past (Series) (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

The American Past an informal series

Standardized Title:

De la démocratie en Amérique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : facsimiles ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[Tenth print.].

Manufacture:

Scranton, Pennsylvania : Printed and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1966.

Contents:

v. 1. Author's preface to the twelfth edition; Exterior form of North America; Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and importance of this origin in relation to their future condition; Social conditions of the Anglo-Americans; The Principle of Sovereignty of the people of America; Necessity of examining the condition of the States before that of the Union at large; Judicial power in the United States, and its influence on political society; Political jurisdiction in the United States; The Federal Constitution; How it can be strictly said that the people govern in the United States; Parties in the United States; Liberty of the Press in the United States; Political Associations in the United States; Government of the democracy in America; What are the real advantages which American society derives from a democratic government; Unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its consequences; Causes which mitigate the tyranny of the majority in the United States; Principal cuases which tend to maintain the democratic republic in the United States; The present and probable future condition of the three races that inhabit the territory of the United States

v. 2. First Book. Influence of democracy on the action of intellect in the United States; Second Book. Influence of democracy on the feelings of the Americans; Third Book. Influence of democracy on manners properly so called; Fourth Book. Influence of democratic ideals and feelings on political society; Appendix I. (Author's appendices); Appendix II. A note on this edition; Appendix III. Editions of Democracy in America.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"Published April 16, 1945. Reprinted eight times. Tenth printing, November 1966."

Contains facsimiles of title pages of first French edition of Volume I and first American editions of Volumes 1 and II.

"The text of this book is set in Caledonia, a Linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins. ... Mr. Swiggins planned the typographic scheme, and designed the binding."--A Note on the type used in this book.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjackets retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok December 1966 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy is "Tenth printing, November 1966".

OCLC:

1334675429