Democracy in America / de la Démocratie En Amérique (in Four Volumes): Historical-Critical Edition of de la Démocratie En Amérique (In Four Volumes)

Review Quotes:
Times Literary Supplement
October 8, 2010

The bilingual Liberty Fund edition of Democracy in America, edited by Eduardo Nolla and translated by James T. Schleifer, provides an unprecedented insight into how Tocqueville's text was written and how its content evolved over time . . . . The great merit of the Liberty Fund edition is that it enables us, for the first time, to gauge the immensity of that undertaking . . . . What makes this edition of Democracy in America not only a new edition but also, as the editor remarks, a different edition is that the extraordinary complexity of the writing of Tocqueville's text is here made clearly visible to the reader. . . . Eduardo Nolla's new edition of Democracy in America, therefore, represents a landmark in Tocqueville scholarship and surpasses all editions previously published. The text is elegantly and faultlessly tranlasted by James Schleifer. The four volumes, with the French and English versions on facing pages, are produced to the highest quality and contain an excellently chosen set of illustrations.

Review Citations:

• LJ Best Reference Sources 11/15/2009 pg. 40 (EAN 9780865977242, Paperback)