In the Pacifica Radio Archives we have a series of lectures from America's pre-eminent sociologist of the the 1950s, David Riesman, a Harvard sociologist who spoke about post-World War II America. In this first lecture, from 1958, Riesman talks about Alexis de Tocqueville's thoughts on American democracy. Tocqueville was the French diplomat and philosopher who took a trip throughout America in the early 1830s, and wrote his masterpiece work Democracy in America, published in 1835.