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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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Brogan, Hugh
ISBN: 9780300136258
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 9.30 x 1.69
Number Of Pages: 724
Publication Year: 2008

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life

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