The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont through the United States ...

Perhaps the best book about America was not written by an American. Instead, Democracy in America came from the pen of a Frenchman, Alexis De Tocqueville. Tocqueville, a politician and aristocrat, ...

“Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” (Alexis de Tocqueville) Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher who visited the ...

Editor; In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French lawyer, visited our country and observed our emerging form of government. His analysis was later published in “Democracy in America” (1835 and ...

Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis ...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was neither a systematic thinker nor a system builder, neither a philosopher nor a historian. His subject was society—make that societies, their strengths and their ...

THE AMERICAN STAKES—John Chamberlain—Carrick & Evans ($2.75). ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE—J. P. Mayer —Viking ($3). Many observers devoutly agree that the year 1940 would be a good year for a lot of people ...

Calling this inequality the “defining challenge of our time” in early December, the president declared that “we need to set aside the belief that government cannot do anything about reducing ...

I got the surprise of my life when, at age 36, I walked into the United States consulate in Montreal to apply for a visa and was told I was a U.S. citizen. I was born and raised in Canada, but because ...

Could the Real Christopher Columbus Please Step Forward? A Deep Dive in All Things LBJ Letter from Berkeley: Positively the Last Word on the People’s Park The Forgotten War No Longer Alexis de ...

Alexis Charles Henri de Tocqueville (29 July 1805-16 April 1859) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known in our country for his work, "Democracy in ...

Alexis de Tocqueville observes how the revolutionary socialists of 1848 failed in France because they alienated the people. In part one of this essay on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Recollections, I looked ...