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Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville; Abridged and with an Introduction by Michael Kammen, Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings

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Democracy in America

Abridged with an Introduction by Michael Kammen

First Edition ©2009

ISBN-10: 0-312-46330-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-46330-4
Paper Text, 208 pages

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Michael Kammen

Michael Kammen

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Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture (emeritus) at Cornell University, where he taught from 1965 until 2008.  In 1980-81, he held a newly created visiting professorship in American history at the École des hautes études in Paris.  He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served in 1995-96 as President of the Organization of American Historians.  In 2009 he received the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction.  His books include People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (1972), awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1973; A Machine That Would Go of Itself:  The Constitution in American Culture (1986), awarded the Francis Parkman Prize and the Henry Adams Prize; Mystic Chords of Memory:  The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (1991); A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (2004); and Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture (2006).  His new book is Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials (2010).


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