Brown, Frederick (editor/translator) — Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters from America

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2010. Hardbound. Brown boards w/ color pictorial DJ, [xx] 284pp, numerous BW figures. From the publisher--These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike. VG+ .