After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy

by Chilton Williamson

Book Overview

The End of Democracy?

The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring.

The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610170229
• ISBN13: 9781610170222
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"