Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. Political philosopher and author, he is acknowledged as a leading translator of Machiavelli.
Delba Winthrop is a Lecturer in Extension and administrator of the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications.
"Democracy in America will continue to be read with profit as long
as the United States survives as a republic and, indeed, as long as
democracy endures. It deserves faithful translators, careful
expositors and insightful commentators. In Mansfield and Winthrop
it has found them."--Robert P. George "Times Literary
Supplement"
"If Tocqueville is an indispensable guide to understanding the
American experience, Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop are
indispensable guides to Tocqueville himself. In the introduction to
their fresh and limpid translation of Democracy in America--what
will surely be the definitive translation for some time to
come--they offer a helpful summary of Tocqueville's philosophical
and political thought."--Thomas Pavel "Wall Street Journal"
"It would be difficult to think of a greater service to the study
of Tocqueville than the one performed by Mansfield and Winthrop in
their impeccable new edition and translation of Democracy in
America. . . . The publisher is justified in claiming that this
version will henceforth be seen as the 'authoritative' edition in
English."-- "Choice"
"The Mansfield-Winthrop work will henceforth be the preferred
English version of Democracy in America not only because of the
superior translation and critical apparatus, but also because of
its long and masterly introductory essay, itself an important
contribution to the literature on Tocqueville."--Roger Kimball "The
New Criterion"
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