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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life

by Hugh Brogan

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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.

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Hugh Brogan held the R. A. Butler Chair in History at the University of Essex and since retiring has had a research professorship there. His books include The Penguin History of the United States and biographies of John F. Kennedy and Arthur Ransome.
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ISBN:
9780300136258
Author:
Brogan, Hugh
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Philosophers
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Biography-Political
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20080331
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
16 b/w illus.
Pages:
736
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 in 2.25 lb
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