Understanding Democracy in America
(2013)

Nonfiction

Audiobook CD

Call Numbers:
CD/320.973/MASUGI,K

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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2013]
℗2013
DESCRIPTION

4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9781470346652 UC0117, 1470346656
LANGUAGE
English
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Compact disc

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

In container (17 cm.)

"8 lectures"--Container

Unabridged

Lecture given by Ken Masugi

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