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From the French Revolution to Bush ; HISTORY ++ Alexis De Tocqueville: Prophet of democracy in the age of revolution By Hugh Brogan PROFILE [pound]30
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Everyone seems to adore Alexis de Tocqueville these days. His
extraordinary account of the political landscape of the early United
States, Democracy in America, is endlessly quoted by pundits and
politicians of every stripe. Republicans love his grim warnings
about bloated, centralised government and his denunciations of
unthinking, liberty-smashing egalitarianism; Democrats cherish his
calls for impassioned civic engagement and applaud his disdain for a
grasping, materialistic culture. Tocqu...
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'Alexis de Tocqueville': the first French critic of the US.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Vikram Johri The 18th and 19th centuries were a tumultuous time in Europe. France, in particular, was looking to find its feet after its revolution, which had wiped out a considerable part of its nobility. Under these circumstances, it was but natural that scholars of the age looked outward
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Two Cheers for Democracy
The Washington Post
; TOCQUEVILLE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life By Sheldon S. Wolin Princeton Univ. 650 pp. $35 Sheldon Wolin is rightly credited with helping to keep political theory alive in the American academy when it nearly succumbed to what was understood as a scientific
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Welch, Cheryl B., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville.(Book review)
Perspectives on Political Science
; Welch, Cheryl B., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 460 pp., $80.00 cloth, $29.99 paper ISBN 0-521-84064-3 cloth ISBN 0-521-54996-5 paper Publication Date: October 2006 This superb anthology is edited by Cheryl Welch, professor and chair of the
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Tocqueville: democratic politics and the modern soul: introduction.(Alexis de Tocqueville)
Perspectives on Political Science
; Tocqueville, yet again--as plain and pertinent as undergraduates or their teachers could wish, and yet somehow inexhaustibly complex, nuanced, and problematic. His basic, practical position is announced in a clear and moderate voice: it is that of a sober, concerned friend of democracy. But the
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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: C-SPAN WILL MAKE TOCQUEVILLE STOPOVER IN NORFOLK JAN. 16.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: Glenn Allen Scott Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America still dazzles readers with its perceptive, prescient observations of life and institutions in the young United States. Politicians of every stripe cite Tocqueville to support their views of the proper relationship between
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