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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, 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.
 
'''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.
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[[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]].
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[[Harvard]] Professor [[Harvey Mansfield]] wrote in his preface to his widely acclaimed translation (with Delba Winthrop) of ''Democracy in America'' 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>
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