Episode #1: "Where Could I Be Better Off?"

The first show of a 14 part series. The series is produced in co-operation with The Fund For Adult Education In America and New York University at the CBC. Dramatizations of portions of the 1831 book by de Tocqueville, dealing with his tour of America, "A study in Jacksonian America."

Air date: January 17, 1962

About the show: Democracy in America was based on the travels and observations that writer Alexis de Toqueville set down in his book by the same name.

Alexis de Tocqueville (author)
George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation)
Andrew Allen (CBC producer)
Lister Sinclair (writer)
Lucio Agostini (music)
Ray Barrett (system cue announcer)