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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
Harvey Mansfield
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Description for Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious attempt to understand America and democracy itself. Yet Tocqueville himself remains a mystery behind the elegance of his style. Now one of our leading authorities on Tocqueville explains him in this splendid new entry in ... Read more
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious attempt to understand America and democracy itself. Yet Tocqueville himself remains a mystery behind the elegance of his style. Now one of our leading authorities on Tocqueville explains him in this splendid new entry in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195175394
SKU
V9780195175394
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About Harvey Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He translated Tocqueville's Democracy in America into English and has written such books as Manliness and Machiavelli's Virtue. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and delivered the 2007 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for ... Read more
Reviews for Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
He accomplishes precisely what volume of this sort ought to: an accessible synthesis of the author's work that serves both as an introduction and as a provocative study in its own right.
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