TIMELY POLITICAL CLASSIC
Hesseltine, William B.
Timely Political Classic DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, by Alexis de Toque-ville. Edited by Phillips Bradley. 2 vols. Knopf. $6. Reviewed by William B. Hesseltine IN 1831-2 Frenchmen came to America to...
...Today, it is an invitation to nostalgia, and the reader who is reminiscent of the American dream will be astonished at the continuing pertinence of the author's observations...
...A foreword by Harold Laski amounts to 2,/i pages...
...Long out of print, its issuance in handsome format and improved translation at the present moment is especially timely...
...It was a book by a competent observer who gathered facts critically and who presented judicious conclusions...
...The work became one of the political classics of the 19th Century...
...Professor Bradley's scholarly introduction and appendices trace the history of the book and discuss the meaning of Toqueville to modern America...
...Reviewed by William B. Hesseltine IN 1831-2 Frenchmen came to America to study the strange phenomena of a successful democratic government...
...Toqueville's Democracy in America was the result...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 30
