Alexis De Tocqueville
Born July 19, 1805
Paris, France
Died April 16, 1859
Cannes, France
French writer who first defined the meaning of American as a new nationality
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Tocqueville, Alexis De
Politician and author Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), who was born in the village of Tocqueville in France on July 29 and died on April 16, is best known for his two p...
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The French statesman and writer Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was the author of "Democracy in America," the first classic commentary on American government writ...
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The French statesman and writer Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was the author of Democracy in America, the first classic commentary on American government writte...
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In this excerpt, Zetterbaum examines Tocqueville's attempts to reconcile the seemingly contradictory concepts of equality and individuality, justice and excellence, in modern democracy.
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In this excerpt, Commager considers the paradox of equality and individualism—a paradox that preoccupied Tocqueville—and suggests that it poses even greater problems in the 1990s.
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In this analysis of the metaphors Tocqueville used to describe American democracy, Kovecses disagrees with the majority of critics who believe Tocqueville regarded American democracy in a positive lig...
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In this excerpt, Mitchell examines Tocqueville's views on the relationship between activity and passivity and suggests that the vastness of the American wilderness encouraged both activity and ...
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Manent is one of many French writers showing a renewed interest in Tocqueville after a long period of neglect. In the following chapter, he analyzes the various traits of the democratic man as describ...
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In this essay, Brogan asserts that Tocqueville's assessment of the American Presidency in general, and Andrew Jackson in particular, was seriously flawed; Tocqueville underestimated the importa...
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In this essay, Zuckert argues that Tocqueville's position on the role of religion in democracy is internally consistent.
Both Jack Lively and Marvin Zetterbaum comment on the paradoxical cha...
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In the following paper, presented at Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Tocqueville's American Journey: A Sesquicentennial Symposium, Pessen claims that Tocqueville's judgments of...
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In this excerpt Boesche discusses Tocqueville's warnings of a "new despotism," potentially originating within American-style democracies, that would enslave the soul and would be ...
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In this excerpt, Rodgers measures the accuracy of Tocqueville's predictions for twentieth-century America.
Democracy in America began as a piece of reportage, metamorphosed into a work in po...
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In this essay, Gargan points out Tocqueville's continuing relevance for postmodernists such as Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.
In March of 1839 Tocqueville was elected to the Cha...
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In this essay, Strout discusses Tocqueville's comments and prophecies regarding American literature.
Tocqueville's Democracy in America wavers between alarming prophecies about democr...
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In my readings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville, the opinions of each other differed in many instances. At the same time many people of the time differed about the same issues that were d...
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One may call them an American by simply being a loyal citizen to their own country. However no one really knows what freedom in America truly is. Alexis De Tocqueville, a historian writer of Democra...
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Benjamin Franklin, wise man that he was, indicated the only two things we cannot avoid are death and taxes and in some cases when you die is when you are taxed the most. To understand the "Federal Es...
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Question 1 of 10:What was unique about
George I of Great Britain, who became king in 1714?He never visited
Britain
He was openly gayHe ruled for just a week
He spoke no English
Question 2 of 10:...
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Like so many marriages, theirs is a study in contrasts. President Jacques Chirac is crazy about John Wayne flicks and sumo wrestling, while his wife Bernadette prefers books. He is known for his ea...
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She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's governm...
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While chefs in London, Paris and New York have been turning their temples of haute cuisine into bistros, Tocqueville has done the reverse. A few weeks ago, the restaurant moved from its narrow stor...
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While chefs in London, Paris and New York have been turning their temples of haute cuisine into bistros, Tocqueville has done the reverse. A few weeks ago, the restaurant moved from its narrow stor...
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More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville detected in democracy a tendency toward despotism. Although it would degrade its citizens without tormenting them, democratic despotism might well be ...
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More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville detected in democracy a tendency toward despotism. Although it would degrade its citizens without tormenting them, democratic despotism might well be ...
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As Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled along the edge of a field in Michigan abutting Highway 94, a police car pulled up. Told by the cop that “it is forbidden to stop on highways, to hang aroun...
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As Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled along the edge of a field in Michigan abutting Highway 94, a police car pulled up. Told by the cop that “it is forbidden to stop on highways, to hang aroun...
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Tocqueville, Alexis De
Tocqueville, Alexis De
Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville
Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville
Critical Essay by Marvin Zetterbaum
Difference in Opinions
A Quiz on the 18th Century
