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Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
Exactly why America needs yet another translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America is about as obvious as how a 26-year old French kid could have written an incisive analysis of a complex political system. As for the former mystery, I suspect that it's simply high time for students of American politics to update their most quotable guru with a new jacket and a fresh translation. And as for the latter: I'm not so sure that Alexis de Tocque...
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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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Democracy's Prophet; How a young 19th-century French aristocrat grasped America's character.
The Washington Post
; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE A Life By Hugh Brogan Yale Univ. 724 pp. $35 Alexis de Tocqueville is a towering figure in 19th-century political thought, on a par with Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill and more prophetic than either of them. It is therefore a bit confounding to realize that, despite all the
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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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Pierson, George Wilson Tocqueville in America Rcprint of Tocqueville and Beaumont in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
History: Review of New Books
; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1938. The reprinting of George Wilson Pierson's classic Tocqueville in America (1996) was first titled Tocqueville and Beaumont in America when originally printed in 1938. It combined historical
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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
The Independent on Sunday
; 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
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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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America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference
The Journal of Southern History
; America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference. By Harvey Mitchell. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 324. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-81246-1.) Harvey Mitchell offers this volume as a companion piece to his previous book about Alexis de Tocqueville,
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Teaching through Tocqueville.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
PS: Political Science & Politics
; Students often find it hard to connect with the writings of ancient dead white men. The Founders, with their powdered wigs, ubiquitous images on coins to stamps, and their legendary names, are distant from the reality of everyday student life. One would not expect that adding foreign born to the
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Tocqueville's journey on C-SPAN.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
PS: Political Science & Politics
; Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont traveled in North America from May 9, 1831 to February 20, 1832. They stopped in 17 of the then 24 United States. Their travels resulted in two books - Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1994)(1) and Beaumont's Marie (19582) Marie, a novel about
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THE ANTI-ANTI-AMERICAN A FRENCH PHILOSOPHER RETRACES TOCQUEVILLE'S STEPS TO SEE IF AMERICA IS REALLY AS BAD AS HIS COUNTRYMEN SAY IT IS
The Boston Globe
; NOT LONG AGO, the French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy came to a stop on the side of a deserted Michigan road. He was in the midst of a cross-country trip on assignment for The Atlantic Monthly, which had commissioned him to write a series of articles that will be published this week by
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