The French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville spent four days in Cincinnati in December 1831 as part of a nine-month tour of America. It was from his observations during the trip that he wrote his ...
COMMENTARY: As it turns out, the French de Tocqueville had plenty to tell us Catholics about life in 1840 America, but he has much more to say to us about life in 2023. A U.S. flag hangs outside the ...
Washington Examiner: Remembering Tocqueville, America’s French observer, on the anniversary of his death
Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of "Democracy in America," is seen in this charcoal portrait. (Théodore Chassériau/Liszt Collection/Newscom) Perhaps the best book about America was not written by an ...
Alexis de Tocqueville, it’s fair to say, is more often cited than read. His oeuvre is enormous; the commonly used quotations—typically taken from Democracy in America, with a few, perhaps, coming from ...
I set out on a De Tocqueville-esque examination of a post-9/11 America a number of years ago, traveling tens of thousands of miles, embedding in cities across the country for months at a time, and ...
Paul Kennedy considers the ongoing relevance of Tocqueville's observations. Part One of the series examines the role of economics, individualism and the press. **This episode originally aired October ...
For two weeks, in my Humanities course at Thales College, we will be reading most of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, an unsurpassed analysis of the American system of government and the American ...
MSN: Gen Z Students Find Common Ground in Tocqueville's ‘Democracy in America'
insider.si.edu: The Chicago companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America / James T. Schleifer