Title page from Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (LF ed. 2010)

Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (LF ed. 2010)

A new 4 volume edition of Tocqueville’s classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique. The Liberty Fund bilingual edition includes Eduardo Nolla’s historical-critical edition of the French text and notes on the lefthand pages and James Schleifer’s English translation on the right. Notes offer an extensive selection of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials.

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