{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/9f17d58f-660b-49ee-9551-e5bfbdae02aa?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Tocqueville on Democracy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7d45.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Alexis de Tocqueville’s <em>Democracy in America</em> (1835/40) can claim to be the best book ever written about democracy <em>and</em> the best book ever written about America.&nbsp;David discusses what Tocqueville was expecting when he went to see American democracy for himself and what he actually found.&nbsp;Tocqueville was amazed and impressed by the American way of doing politics, but his fears about how its democracy might go wrong remain as prescient as ever.</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 1</a> and <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/816\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2</a></li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Democracy-America-Essays-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447601\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Democracy-America-Essays-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447601</a></li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vyw0x\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In Our Time on Tocqueville’s <em>Democracy in America</em></a></li><li><a href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tocqueville-a-very-short-introduction-9780195175394?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr, Tocqueville: a very short introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-12-12/americas-original-sin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Annette Gordon Reed, ‘America’s Original Sin: Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy’</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexis-Tocqueville-Prophet-Democracy-Revolution/dp/1861975937\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: prophet of democracy in the age of revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007).</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/212-the-15th-and-the-19th\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Politics American History series on the 15th and 19th amendment</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}