Who has not spent a few minutes marveling at Tocqueville’s evergreen depiction of a U.S. Tocqueville (1805–59) is often invoked for his supposedly deep insights into our country (a few of which, like the line that “America is great because she is good,” he never ventured), and for observations that feel like they could have been written yesterday. 472 pp.ĭoes Alexis de Tocqueville-the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America-still matter? Why should any of us today pay heed to a long-dead French aristocrat and his travelogue of a long-dead version of America? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville.By Olivier Zunz.
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