![]() ![]() What we need, here at the beginning of the century, is a fresh examination–one that begins from Tocqueville’s own concerns and not from our desire to use him for our political battles. ![]() “The best edition of the best book on America. Mansfield and Winthrop’s astonishing efforts have not only captured the elegance, subtlety, and profundity of Tocqueville’s original, but also give us some sense of how very essential this masterpiece continues to be. ![]() When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop’s new translation of Democracy in America was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville’s 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. ![]()
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