The result, the two-volume Democracy in America (1835, 1840), is considered a classic discourse on 19th-century America. French writer ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE (1805-1859) was born in Paris and practiced law before embarking on travels in America to study the young nation's political experiment. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Tocqueville's Selected Letters on Politics and Society. I consider all the forms of government only as so many more or less perfect means of satisfying this holy and legitimate craving. This is an important book for our unsteady times.
The political and economic situations Tocqueville examines are immediately recognizable as one that haunts the world's richest nations today, and his lessons are still to be learned. how good intentions backfire to produce a chronically dependent underclass. why private charity is more likely to alleviate poverty than government aid. why the richest nations have the most paupers. from ""Memoir on Pauperism"" Inspired by a trip to England at a time when that nation was in the throes of political, social, and economic strife and poverty was rampant, political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville developed his theories on civil society as it relates to its poorest members and set them down in this 1835 essay. It was based on his vist to England in 1833, where he found that one-sixth of the population had been reduced to reliance on poor relief at a cost approaching nearly one-fifth of total national expenditure.
Egal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the English poor but also from those who are threatened by poverty. The Memoir on Pauperism was written in 1835 immediately after Alexis de Toqueville had completed the first volume of Democracy in America.
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