Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America - Ralph Raico and Wendy McElroy - Audio Book

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America - Ralph Raico and Wendy McElroy : Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America. The democratic concept of equality was emerging as a political reality in America, and it threatened the aristocracy of Europe; it produced a society of individualists hungry for self improvement.

In this classic treatise, Tocqueville weighed the advantages of democracy against its dangers. He asked: Is the tendency toward equality a tendency toward liberty? Can the majority be restrained to protect the freedom of individuals and minorities?

In this audio book we realise how visionary de Tocqueville was: a picture of American government, culture, a new nation of human interaction.