Stealing Tocqueville?(translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America")

The American Prospect | September 24, 2001| | Copyright

FOR YEARS HARPER AND ROW featured a blurb on the front cover of George Lawrence's 1966 translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America: "Tocqueville, whose brilliance has always been granted by academics, is now accessible to readers who don't mind brilliance as long as it is readable." Apparently, though, it's not been obvious to everyone that this accessibility has been a good thing. Reviews of a new translation published last fall by the University of Chicago Press have been overwhelmingly positive, and largely for the reason that it is more difficult ...


        
    


                
                

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