Star Tribune: Review: 'The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville,' by Olivier Zunz
Review: 'The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville,' by Olivier Zunz
The title of Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—“The Man Who Understood Democracy”—would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation ...
The Independent: Alexis De Tocqueville: Prophet of democracy in the age of revolution, by Hugh Brogan
Everyone seems to adore Alexis de Tocqueville these days. His extraordinary account of the political landscape of the early United States, Democracy in America, is endlessly quoted by pundits and ...
Alexis De Tocqueville: Prophet of democracy in the age of revolution, by Hugh Brogan
Democracy in America, written by French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most widely quoted books that has ever been written about American politics. The book was a hit in France and ...
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat, wrote as a friend of democracy in America, albeit one with misgivings for its future. His insights on the nascent democratic society he visited in the ...
Publishers Weekly: The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
THE memory of Alexis de Tocqueville belongs scarcely less to America than to France, His book on “ Democracy in America ” was the foundation of his fame. As a successful investigation by a foreigner ...
Editor; In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French lawyer, visited our country and observed our emerging form of government. His analysis was later published in “Democracy in America” (1835 and ...