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1 online resource (1 audio file (17hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Cast |
Read by Various Readers. |
Summary |
In 1831 French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to investigate its prison system. America was then a nation of 13 million people populating 24 states, with a largely unsettled territorial claim stretching westward to the Pacific. Seriously distracted from his original mission, the 25-year-old Tocqueville ended up writing about America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy in ways so insightful and prophetic that today historians, professors, and politicians still consider his work Democracy in America a classic. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Democracy.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Various Readers, .
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781662141904 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1662141904 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT13611793 |
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