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Letters from America

Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederick Brown

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Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederick Brown

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A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville's later masterful account of American democracy

Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered.

These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780300153835
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Letteratura epistolare
2
7
5
I
N
D
E
X
In 
subheadings, 
AT 
is 
Alexis 
de 
Tocqueville 
and 
GB 
is 
Gustave 
de 
Beaumont
Abbot, 
Mr. 
and 
Mrs., 
156
Adams, 
John 
Quincy, 
194n, 
199,
199n
African 
Americans, 
228–29, 
245,
249, 
250
Albany: 
Independence 
Day, 
113–
15, 
119–21, 
123; 
records, 
109, 
113,
121, 
123
Allegheny 
Mountains, 
230, 
237
Americans: 
African 
Americans,
228–29, 
245, 
250; 
appearance,
18–19, 
20–21; 
belief 
in 
educa-
tion, 
87, 
208; 
communal 
opin-
ions, 
86–88; 
German 
Ameri-
cans, 
228; 
happiness, 
53; 
health,
185; 
as 
immigrant 
society, 
140,
163 
(
see 
also
immigration);
instability 
of 
character, 
67, 
68,
85; 
manners 
and 
habits, 
104–5,
200, 
221; 
newspapers 
read, 
106–
7; 
pride, 
32; 
prosperity, 
53–54;
refinement 
lacking, 
106, 
221;
self-interest, 
66; 
self-respect,
97. 
See 
also
commerce; 
govern-
ment, 
American; 
morality; 
pol-
itics, 
American; 
religion;
society; 
wealth, 
passion 
for
architecture: 
Capitol 
building,
264–65; 
country 
houses, 
70–71;
log 
houses, 
116, 
244, 
249–50; 
in
Newport 
and 
N.Y., 
19–20
army, 
U.S., 
29, 
121, 
158–59
art, 
106
Atala
(Chateaubriand), 
xiii, 
142,
168, 
178, 
203
Atheneum, 
39
Auburn, 
N.Y.: 
about, 
126; 
prison
studied, 
27n, 
117, 
118–19, 
132;
visit 
planned, 
27, 
76, 
100
bears, 
135
Beaumont, 
Achille 
de 
(brother 
of
GB; 
letters), 
72–74, 
147–59,
191–92

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