Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics

Why did the French Revolution lead to the Terror when the American Revolution yielded a liberal democracy? Tocqueville spent his life trying to understand the p

Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditio

"Most folks probably don't learn about Alexis de Tocqueville in school anymore, but his seminal work, Democracy in America, is still surprisingly resonant. When

A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocquevi