Synopses & Reviews
With his lifelong examination of the relation between freedom andequality in modern societies, Alexis de Tocqueville is the most widely shared iconof Franco-American political culure. Until now, his American readers have not beenin a position to recognize the extent to which, even when his ostensible subject wasAmerica, Tocqueville was engaging in hotly contested debates about French societyand politics.
Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville andthe French allows for a clearer understanding of Tocqueville's writings by supplyingtheir missing French context, from the time he wrote Democracy in America and TheOld Regime and the French Revolution to the present. With its contextualization andinterpretation of his workds Tocqueville and the French will compel the attention ofhistorians, sociologists, political scientists, and concerned citizens for whomTocqueville remains perhaps the single most important interpreter of Americansociety and culture.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-288) and index.