"Democracy in America," interview with Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, 17 October 2000.
Alexis de Tocqueville’s book he wrote on his return to France from America in 1831 remains the most often quoted book about the United States. Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop’s new translation is the first to appear in three decades, and the only one to provide notes identifying events and allusions no longer familiar to today’s readers.