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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Btw has anyone actually read it? Is it worth reading? Tbh, the Amazon description doesn't sound very appealing. Kinda LIB little white supremacy even.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone.

[-] reader@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

honestly my only familiarity is from excerpts in Liberalism: A counter-history by losurdo and it didn't seem too appealing but it may kind of be an interesting historical perspective on the USA far before its hegemony

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