id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3456 Democracy in America - Wikipedia .html text/html 3422 361 64 In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead.[3] They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. When the first edition was published, Beaumont was working on another book, Marie, ou, L'esclavage aux Etats-Unis (two volumes, 1835), a social critique and novel describing the separation of races in a moral society and the conditions of slaves in the United States. Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of the United States would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.[4] Translated versions of Democracy in America and effects on meaning[edit] "Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Note on the Translation". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3456.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3456.txt