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FREEDOM IN AMERICA by William Ker Muir, Jr., is a brilliant book. Two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA to explain the infant America to the French. Professor Muir writes to explain today's America, exploring many of Toqueville's themes. However, the author has given us much more than an update, because FREEDOM IN AMERICA is superbly written -- a concise, clear, and compelling read. It reflects the author's deep knowledge of political philosophy, his extensive practical political experience, and his reputation as a brilliant classroom teacher.In Part I, the author explores the relation between freedom and different types of power, coercive, moral, and reciprocal. A highlight is his eleven "Paradoxes of Politics", paradoxes relating to the types of power.Then the author turns to the institutions by which America is governed: Part II explains institutions of the state (federal system; executive, legislative, and judicial branches) and the private sector (markets and the media). Part III explains the institutions of American civil society.These topics are familiar to the American reader, but the American reader will gain many insights from the author's limpid explanation. For a non-American, I can think of no better introduction to America.Toqueville appears frequently -- his predictions and his warnings. If he were still with us, Toqueville would enjoy FREEDOM IN AMERICA -- and this is the book he would like to have written himself.The reader will be well rewarded if he or she opens this book in the morning of a free day, because once started, FREEDOM IN AMERICA is hard to put down.