Discovering America
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Leader
Saturday July 30, 2005
The Guardian
It is not often that the views of 19th-century thinkers are discussed
in daily newspapers preoccupied with current events, but Alexis de
Tocqueville, born 200 years ago yesterday, is worthy of the honour -
and relevant to anyone worried about the state of our world. The French
lawyer went to the US in 1831 to study penal reform, but the nine
months he spent travelling from New York to New Orleans produced the
classic Democracy in America, still regarded by some as the finest book
ever written on either of the two subjects of his title.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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