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基本信息·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：416 页
·出版日期：1999年12月
·ISBN：1853264806
·条形码：9781853264801
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
·外文书名：美国民主
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Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women.
作者简介 One of America's premier essayists, Joseph Epstein was the editor of
The American Scholar for 25 years and has taught--and continues to teach--advanced prose, the reading and writing of fiction, the sociology of literature, autobiography, literature and politics, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Willa Cather at Northwestern University. Epstein is the author of 13 books, most recently
Life Sentences and
Narcissus Leaves the Pool, and has published roughly four hundred essays, stories, reviews and articles in such journals as
The New Yorker, Harper's, Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Commentary, The New Criterion, The New York Review of Books, Encounter, The New York Times Magazine, and
Dissent. 编辑推荐 Review "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer -- none perhaps as good". -- The New York Times
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Review "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's
Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good."
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The New York TimesPraise for the work of Joseph Epstein:
"Epstein is one of the premier contemporary American essayists...What is so remarkable about Epstein as an essay writer is that he'll begin a discussion at some personal place...and end up in another place relevant to us all. He enjoys making language work, not making it jump through hoops for show." --
Booklist"Joseph Epstein is an essayist in the brilliant tradition of Charles Lamb. He moves so effortlessly from the amusingly personal to the broadly philosophical that it takes a moment before you realize how far out into the intellectual cosmos you've been taken."
--Tom Wolfe
"Joseph Epstein's essays no more need his identifying byline than Van Gogh's paintings need his signature. Epstein's style--call it learned whimsy--is unmistakable; for Epstein addicts, indispensable."
--George Will
"Joseph Epstein is the liveliest, most erudite and engaging essayist we have." --James Atlas
"If Epstein's ultimate ancestor is Montaigne, his more immediate master is Mencken. Like Mencken, he has fashioned a style that successfully combines elegance and even bookishness with street-smart colloquial directness. And there is nothing remote or aloof about him."
--John Gross,
Chicago Tribune --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
