books.google.ca - 'A new political science is needed for a totally new world’ In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Democracy_in_America.html?id=af3tmwYlgBEC&q=taste&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDemocracy in America