Democracy in America

Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with La Société Tocqueville/the Tocqueville Society.

Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

The intellectual origins of Tocqueville's thought / François Furet -- Tocqueville and his conception of a "new liberalism" / François Bourricaud -- Commentary / Henri Mendras, Olivier Zunz -- Evening session welcome and introduction / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The current relevance of Democracy in America / Theodore Caplow -- Commentary / Jacques Barzun.