Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this book upon his return to France from America in 1831 and it remains the most often quoted book about the United States. Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrops new translation is the first to appear in three decades, and the only one to provide notes identifying events and allusions no longer familiar to todays readers.

When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrops new translation of Democracy in America was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocquevilles classic thus far?complete with the most faithful and readable translation to date, impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references, and a masterful introduction placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy and statesmanship. Mansfield and Winthrops astonishing efforts have not only captured the elegance, subtlety, and profundity of Tocquevilles original, but also give us some sense of how very essential this masterpiece continues to be.

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