Alexis de Tocqueville
A Life
Brogan, Hugh
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
This is a magnificent biography. Hugh Brogans knowledge of the details of Tocquevilles life is extraordinary, as is his erudite account of his family life and of French politics and society in the first half of the nineteenth century. And how splendidly the book is written! Tocquevilles life was marked by a triumph of character; Hugh Brogans biography is a triumph of history and letters.John Lukacs
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300136250
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300136258
Dewey Decimal: 300
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 724
Paper Weight (lb): 2.25 lb
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