The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
- James T. Schleifer (author)
- George W. Pierson (foreword)
A model of intellectual history which documents where, when, and under what influences Alexis de Tocqueville wrote different sections of his Democracy in America and how the central themes of that work - democracy, individualism, centralization, despotism - emerged.
Key Quotes
Presidents, Kings, Tyrants, & Despots
Thus it daily makes the exercise of free choice less useful and rarer, restricts the activity of free will within a narrower compass, and little by little robs each citizen of the proper use of his own faculties. Equality has prepared men for all this, predisposing them to endure it and often even…