{"product_id":"alexis-de-tocqueville-book-hugh-brogan-9780300108033","title":"Alexis De Tocqueville","description":"\u003cb\u003eMagisterial. . . . The authoritative life for our time.--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e ancien r gime\u003c\/i\u003e launched the scholarly study of the French Revolution, and \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e remains the best book ever written by a European about the United States. This is a brilliant account of his life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49759863243025,"sku":"CIN0300108036G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51413184184593,"sku":"CIN0300108036VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300108036.jpg?v=1750941231","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/alexis-de-tocqueville-book-hugh-brogan-9780300108033","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}