ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Author(s): Hugh Brogan
"Magisterial. . . . The authoritative life for our time."--Washington Post Book World
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 contributed to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy. The ancien r gime 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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- : Yale University Press
- : 1.13398
- : 28 March 2007
- : 1.81 Inches X 6.13 Inches X 9.25 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hugh Brogan
- : Hardback
- : 944.0072/02
- : 736