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Tocqueville, el hombre que mejor supo explicar la grandeza de la democracia
Washington Examiner: Remembering Tocqueville, America’s French observer, on the anniversary of his death
Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of "Democracy in America," is seen in this charcoal portrait. (Théodore Chassériau/Liszt Collection/Newscom) Perhaps the best book about America was not written by an ...
A consideration of Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. What saddens me is, not that our society is democratic, but that the vices which we have inherited and acquired make it so difficult ...
Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to study its prisons, but ended up documenting nearly every facet of American life. With journalistic curiosity, the French aristocrat scrutinized America ...
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was neither a systematic thinker nor a system builder, neither a philosopher nor a historian. His subject was society—make that societies, their strengths and their ...
To save our democracy, the 19th-century French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville would tell us, start a book club. Join a church. Or, perhaps most crucially, volunteer at a local school or run for ...
En verano de 1831, en una Francia que vivía bajo la Monarquía de Julio, Alexis de Tocqueville se encontraba lejos de los salones parisinos y de los debates políticos que ocupaban su día a día y que ta ...
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 ...