Tocqueville Reader : A Life in Letters and Politics

Tocqueville, Alexis de; Kahan, Alan S. (EDT); Zunz, Olivier (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0631215468 / ISBN 13: 9780631215462

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tocqueville Reader : A Life in Letters and Politics
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631215468
• ISBN 13: 9780631215462
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

The Tocqueville Reader includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. It includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer.

About the Author

Olivier Zunz is Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia and president of the Tocqueville Society. He is the author of The Changing Face of Inequality (1982), Making America Corporate (1990), and Why the American Century? (1998). He is also the editor of Reliving the Past (1985), and co-editor of The Landscape of Modernity (1992) and Social Contracts under Stress (2002).

Alan S. Kahan is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. He is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism, The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville (1992, 2001), and the translator of Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the Revolution (vol. 1: 1998, vol. 2: 2001).