Alexis de Tocqueville: a biography / Hugh Brogan.

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London : Profile Books Ltd., 2006.

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26840

Added title:

Alexis de Tocqueville: prophet of democracy in the age of revolution: a biography (Dust jacket).

Author:

Brogan, Hugh.

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Subject:

de Tocqueville, Alexis, -- 1805-1859.

Political scientists -- France -- Biography.

Biography.

Contents:

Book One. Young Tocqueville --1. Noblesse --2. Royalists --3. A Sentimental education --4. First flight --5. Pupillage --6. July --7. Upheaval --8. A Voyage out --9. A Republic observed --10. Writing prisons --11. Between books --12. Writing America --13. Fame --14. Into politics --15. Writing democracy --Book Two. Monsieur de Tocqueville --16. Deputy --17. February --18. June --19. Retrospection --20. December --21. Writing history --22. Writing revolution --23. Retreating --24. Cannes.

Summary:

This is an account of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. 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, an experience which contributed to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781861975096

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Phys. description:

[x], 724 p. : ill.