Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide (Eminent Lives)
Joseph Epstein " Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide (Eminent Lives) "
Eminent Lives | Pages: 224 | 2006-11-07 | ISBN : 0060598980 | PDF | 1 MB
Eminent Lives | Pages: 224 | 2006-11-07 | ISBN : 0060598980 | PDF | 1 MB
Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic, Democracy in America, published in 1835, not only offered a vivid account of what was then a new nation but famously predicted what that nation would become. His startling prescience, as well as the endurance of his political ideas, has firmly established Tocqueville's place in American history; his chronicle of our infancy is a fixture on every American history syllabus. Nearly all of his clairvoyant predictions about American political life, from the influence of Evangelical Christianity to the advent of our "consumer society," have come true—and on the schedule he set.