Educating Democracy

Brian Danoff is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University in Ohio.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tocqueville on Leadership and the Education of Democracy2. The Antifederalists and Tocqueville on Democratic Leadership and Democratic Authority3. Lincoln and Tocqueville on Democratic Leadership and Self-Interest Properly Understood4. Wilson and Tocqueville on Leadership and the"Character Foundations of American Democracy"5. The Vocation of the Democratic Moralist: Putnam, Tocqueville, and the Education of Democracy TodayNotes BibliographyIndex

"…this is an important and even a courageous book … In an age when political talk often extols dead certainties, this recognition of the complexity inherent in democratic life is refreshing." — H-Net Reviews (H-Education)"An intelligent book on Tocqueville is always welcome. Danoff's book … is thoughtful, knowledgeable, sensible and rigorous. It is also highly provocative. To his great credit … Danoff, like Tocqueville himself, argues persuasively that a good democrat is a moderate democrat and that a good democracy requires a traditional moral foundation. That alone makes his book well worth reading." — Teachers College Record