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Democracy in America

If you loved Democracy in America

Books like Democracy in America

If you loved Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Gerald Bevan, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Philo-Publius, Clinton Rossiter, Charles R. Kessler

No. 2

Two Treatises of Government

John Locke, Peter Laslett, Raymond Geuss

No. 3

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke, C.B. Macpherson

No. 4

The Constitution of the United States of America

Founding Fathers

No. 5

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes, C.B. Macpherson

No. 6

Politics

Aristotle

No. 7

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston

No. 8

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

No. 9

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

No. 10

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

No. 11

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook, Jack Fruchtman Jr.

No. 12

Discourse on Method

René Descartes, Donald A. Cress

No. 13

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek

No. 14

The Republic

Plato, Desmond Lee

No. 15

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

No. 16

The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

Founding Fathers

No. 17

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

No. 18

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

No. 19

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

No. 20

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones

No. 21

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood

No. 22

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche, Douglas Smith

No. 23

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato, G.M.A. Grube, John M. Cooper

No. 24

Metaphysics

Aristotle, Joe Sachs