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℗2013
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4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
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Tocqueville's amazing and enduring insights -- Making democracy safe for the world -- Self-government American style -- The sources of American liberty -- The slavery of African-Americans, the aristocracy of women -- The decline of the American spirit -- How democracy grows the "gentle despotism" of bureaucracy -- Tocqueville and the great American statesman
Examining the founding of the American political system through the classic works of Democracy in America author Alexis de Tocqueville, this course explores the big ideas of the American experiment. Taking into account matters from liberty and independence to self-government and civil associations, these lectures highlight issues of states' rights, church and state, race, and public versus private charity
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Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2013
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Lecture given by Ken Masugi