
Alexis De Tocqueville: A Life
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France.At age twenty-five he travelled to America and encountered democracy for the first time. This firsthand experience contr...
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; First Edition edition (March 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780300108033
ISBN-13: 978-0300108033
ASIN: 0300108036
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.8 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1945349
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“I purchased this book as one of many sources I would be using in a research paper. When I got it, I was dismayed at the length (700+ pages, which I had not paid any attention to at the time of purchase). I was wary, not because I did not wish to re...”
buted to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy. The ancien régime launched the scholarly study of the French Revolution, and Democracy in America remains the best book ever written by a European about the United States. This is a brilliant account of his life.
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