The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics

By Alexis de Tocqueville

Book Overview

The Tocqueville Reader includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. It includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631215468
• ISBN13: 9780631215462
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"