Democracy in America.
In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead.
They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months tr.
In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous seven hundred years.
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system.
Democracy in America