Tocqueville

by André Jardin

Book Overview

"Tocqueville: A Biography is a book of considerable importance, primarily because of its comprehensive treatment of both Tocqueville's public life and his private life--including many details necessarily absent from the two previous biographical essays."--John Lukacs, The New Yorker

In this first major biography of the author of Democracy in America, Andr Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374521905
• ISBN13: 9780374521905
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Delightful surprise

This is a wonderful biography. I knew that Tocqueville was a great thinker, but I thought that his life would be boring (are thoughts worth being told? Yes, this book indeed proves it). However, the author manages to narrate Tocqueville's life and times in such a way that I could not put it down, and read it in less than a week's time. So I may not think of a better book to commemorate Tocqueville's bicentennial anniversary and I fully agree and endorse, as my own, the other reviewer's opinion.