Letters from America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Letters from America

Alexis de Tocqueville with Frederick Brown

304 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy reflective slow-paced
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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 ob...

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