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Letters from America Frederick Brown

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Letters from America Frederick Brown


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Zusammenfassung

Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. This title provides a translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey.

Letters from America Zusammenfassung

Letters from America Frederick Brown

A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville's later masterful account of American democracy

Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered.

These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike.

Letters from America Bewertungen

It's no surprise that the letters are jam-packed with insightful observations. What is surprising is how alive they are even today. This is living history, not embalmed. A collection that combines both charm and historical relevance.-Library Journal (starred review)
* Library Journal *
[Letters from America] provide[s] significant insights--above all, into [Tocqueville's] mental habit of 'making comparisons.' . . . But beyond their value in understanding Democracy in America, the letters are often simply delightful.--Daniel E. Ritchie, Books & Culture

-- Daniel E. Ritchie * Books & Culture *
Curiously, this is the first publication en bloc, in either French or English, of Alexis de Tocqueville's delightful letters from America in 1831-2. All of them have previously been printed, but only here and there. Frederick Brown is to be congratulated on bringing them all together, and for publishing, with them, the American letters of Gustave de Beaumont.-Hugh Brogan, Times Literary Supplement -- Hugh Brogan * Times Literary Supplement *
Winner of the 2011 Translation Prize given by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation -- 2011 Translation Prize * French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation *
Ably translated. . . . Illumines the great work Democracy in America.-Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion -- Daniel J. Mahoney * The New Criterion *

Über Frederick Brown

Frederick Brown is professor emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books include Zola: A Life; Flaubert: A Biography; and The Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus. He lives in New York City.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR007204783
9780300181838
0300181833
Letters from America Frederick Brown
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Yale University Press
2012-04-17
304
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