by Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville's 1830s travelogue-turned-political-theory remains the most insightful analysis of American democracy ever written. His warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the rise of "soft despotism" feel prophetic.
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Tocqueville's Democracy in America is cited for the "domestic dictators" line in Holiday's chapter on confronting uncomfortable historical truths about slavery and power.
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