Alexis de Tocqueville

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in th…

A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…