![]() ![]() ![]() Constitution) and the revolution in France began. Democracy in America is about the unique brand of democracy enjoyed by Americans, and this chapter summarizes the circumstances and behaviors Tocqueville believes make the country so exceptional. Alexis de Tocqueville points out that the year 1789 was a fateful turning point for both America and France, for in that year the American Revolution ended ( Tocqueville considers the struggle for independence ended with the ratification of the U.S. The three primary causes Tocqueville cites are Providence, the laws, and the habits and mores of the people. In the next chapter, Tocqueville reviews the specific aspects of America that have secured a democratic republican government for so long. Vol 1, Ch 16: Causes Mitigating Tyranny in the United States Vol 1, Ch 15: Unlimited Power of Majority and its Consequences ![]() In these chapters, Tocqueville examines how majority rule operates in the United States and how the decentralization of power prevents the majority from becoming tyrannical. A successful democratic republic is ruled by the majority but does not allow the majority to tyrannize the minority. As you read, take notes on how Tocqueville believes the greater equality created in a democratic society affects Americans. The principle of majority rule defines democracy. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() But their book became famous as a book of children's stories anyway. They did not originally mean for their book to be read as children's stories they were writing down German folklore for scholars to read. The Brothers Grimm listened to many traditional stories from old people and wrote them into a book. The most famous version of the story is the one written by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. The best-known version (the way the story is told) is Rotkäppchen by the Brothers Grimm and dates from the 19th century (1800s). It was first written down in the late 1600s, by Charles Perrault. The story comes from a folktale which means that it was a spoken story for a long time before it was a written story. " Little Red Riding Hood" (or " Little Red Cap") is a French fairy tale for young children about a young girl and a wolf. A picture by French illustrator Gustave Doré ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years-"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism-Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things-a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author was brought up in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton where his father was one of the most prominent jurists in the city. ![]() He is best known for his work with Carl Bernstein in reporting on the “Watergate Scandal” for “The Washington Post” which won the paper the Pulitzer Prize. Wade: The Inside Story.īob Woodward real name Robert Upshur Woodward is an American author and journalist. Parts of The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court were adapted into The Justices Behind Roe V. The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump Wade: The Inside Story, Adapted from The Brethren Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American BoomĪll the President's Men (With: Carl Bernstein) Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle (With: ) Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (With: ) ![]() |