Tocqueville and the American Experiment
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An overview of democracy in America -- Alexis de Tocqueville--a brief biography -- The journey to America -- Equality of conditions and freedom -- The foundations of the American experience -- Does America have a mixed constitution? -- The American Constitution -- The judiciary and lawyers in America -- Democracy and local government -- Freedom of speech in theory and practice -- Freedom of the press -- Political parties -- The problem of the tyranny of the majority -- Political associations -- Civil associations -- Blacks and Indians -- Mores and democracy -- Christianity and democracy --Education and culture in democracies -- Individualism in America -- The desire for wealth in America -- The democratic family -- Are democracy and excellence compatible? -- Tocqueville's unanswered questions.
Lecturer: William R. Cook, State University of New York at Geneseo.
Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the role of freedom of the press.
DVD, region 1.
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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2005]
Year Published: 2005
Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1565859537 :
9781565859531
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859 -- Political and social views.
Democracy -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Social conditions.