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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Zunz, Olivier
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| Publisher: |
Princeton University Press
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| Date: |
05/03/2022
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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"In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocrat would dedicate his life as a writer and politician to ending despotism in his country and bringing it into a new age. In this ... biography, leading Tocqueville expert Olivier Zunz tells the story of a radical thinker who, uniquely charged by the events of his time, both in America and France, used the world as a laboratory for his political ideas"--
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