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 Americaand encountered democracy for the first time. This firsthand experience contributed to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy. The" ancien regime" 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."
- ISBN10 0300108036
- ISBN13 9780300108033
- Publish Date 1 March 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 October 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English