Abstract:
Many interest here is, in almost equal parts, Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America, and the American intellectual scene, chiefly as we have known it since about 1940. Although some of Tocqueville’s major insights form the substance of what follows, I shall consider them, not directly, much less systematically, but instead through the prisms that have been formed by successive American reactions to Democracy in America. The relation of a book to its public is always a matter of interest, especially when that public is the protagonist of the book. Few books have ever been greeted with larger or mo…

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