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  • Paperback: 558 pages
  • Publisher: John Hopkins University Press; New edition edition (1 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0801860679
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801860676
  • Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,463,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"An important, detailed, and balanced account of Tocqueville's life that will be indispensable to future studies on this subject." -- Eileen Ka-May Cheng, H-Net Reviews

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In his first major biography of the author of Democracy in America, Andre Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic parents in postrevolutionary France, through his trip to antebellum America as a young man, his adventures in Algeria, and his political career in France's Second Republic, to his return to writing and the publication of his other classic work, L'Ancien regime et la revolution, in 1856. Jardin also offers an illuminating critical analysis of Democracy in America, arguing that the concerns for just government that inform this famous work dominated Tocqueville's thought throughout his life.
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ON 11 THERMIDOR of the year XIII (July 29, 1805) there was born in Paris "at 987, rue de la Ville-l'Eveque, Roule division... Read the first page
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Delightful surprise 30 July 2005
By César González Rouco - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a wonderful biography. I knew that Tocqueville was a great thinker, but I thought that his life would be boring (are thoughts worth being told? Yes, this book indeed proves it). However, the author manages to narrate Tocqueville's life and times in such a way that I could not put it down, and read it in less than a week's time. So I may not think of a better book to commemorate Tocqueville's bicentennial anniversary and I fully agree and endorse, as my own, the other reviewer's opinion.

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