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[ Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect . By Paul A. Rahe. Yale University Press, 2009. Xxiii + 374 pages.] Paul Rahe’s outstanding book can be considered an extended commentary on a famous passage in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America : Over these [citizens] is elevated an immense,