Alexis de Tocqueville was a French philosopher / writer who fell passionately in love with America in 1830. De Tocqueville, a member of the privileged Norman class of old France, spent two years exploring and researching the great American experiment of the 19th century. He was so smitten with America he wrote a brilliant two volume essay in 1835 entitled Democracy in America. The book is in every university and college library of America.
