SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the tyranny of the majority and the remedy for it, nostalgia for an aristocracy in decline, and the importance of religious faith. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Democracy in America is a multilayered work that spans genres, topics, and continents. On one hand, it is a historical work, as some of its assessments are rooted in Tocqueville’s personal observations of the United States in the early 19th century. At the same time, it is a work of political philosophy, as Tocqueville asks himself what the American government has to teach him and his fellow Europeans about democracy as a way of life. 

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