Originally published: New York, Harper & Row, 1974.

First published 1982 in the U.K. by Hodder and Stoughton, London, under the title "I Believe in Preaching."

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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