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'''Democracy in America''' is a 305,000-word, two-volume brilliant analysis of life in the [[United States]] by the [[Frenchman]] Alexis de Toqueville, as published in [[London]] in 1835.  It is based on his extensive travels throughout America in the first part of the 19th century.

'''Democracy in America''' is a 305,000-word, two-volume brilliant analysis of life in the [[United States]] by the [[Frenchman]] Alexis de Toqueville, originally published in French but then quickly published in [[London]] in 1835.  It is based on his extensive travels throughout America in the first part of the 19th century.

 

[[Harvard]] Professor [[Harvey Mansfield]] wrote in his preface to his widely acclaimed translation (with Delba Winthrop) that it "is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America."<ref>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo3612682.html</ref> It is also the most-quoted book ever written about the [[United States]].

This work is in the [[public domain]] and freely available today.<ref name="G">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm</ref>

This work is in the [[public domain]] and freely available today.<ref name="G">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm</ref>