Alexis De Tocqueville by Hugh Brogan

Alexis De Tocqueville by Hugh Brogan

Magisterial. . . . The authoritative life for our time.--Washington Post Book World

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.

Hugh Brogan was educated at Repton School and Cambridge. He worked on the Economist for two years before his first visit to the United States as a Harkness Fellow in 1962. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1963 to 1974 and thereafter, until his retirement in 1998, taught at the University of Essex. He has several published works, the most recent of which is 'Signalling from Mars: Selected Letters of Arthur Ransome' (1997).

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ISBN 13	9780300108033
ISBN 10	0300108036
Title	Alexis De Tocqueville
Author	Hugh Brogan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2007-03-01
Number of pages	448
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