I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we are today, it is hard not to wonder: if Alexis de Tocqueville showed up in ...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was neither a systematic thinker nor a system builder, neither a philosopher nor a historian. His subject was society—make that societies, their strengths and their ...

The title of Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—“The Man Who Understood Democracy”—would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation ...

Arguably the preeminent scholar on Alexis de Tocqueville has written a new biography on the French aristocrat who defied aristocracy in favor of democracy. Olivier Zunz, the James Madison Professor of ...

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In 1835 and 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville published the two volumes of what would eventually be recognized as a masterpiece of political analysis. Written after the French lawyer’s nine-month visit to ...

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“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” — Alexis de Tocqueville ...

THE memory of Alexis de Tocqueville belongs scarcely less to America than to France, His book on “ Democracy in America ” was the foundation of his fame. As a successful investigation by a foreigner ...