{"product_id":"tocqueville-paperback","title":"Tocqueville - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndre Jardin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRobert Hemenway\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTocqueville: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorke\u003c\/b\u003er\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this first major biography of the author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, Andr  Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic parents in post-revolutionary France, through his trip to antebellum America as a young man, his adventures in Algeria, and his political career in France's Second Republic, to his return to writing and the publication of his other classic work \u003ci\u003eL'Ancien r gime et la r volution\u003c\/i\u003e in 1856. Jardin also offers an illuminating critical analysis of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, arguing that the concerns for just government that inform this famous work dominated Tocqueville's thought throughout his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His scholarship is meticulous, his judgment careful and fair, his style plain and clear... Jardin has put all students of Tocqueville deep in his debt... More than any of his contemporaries--more than Marx, more than Mill, much more than Mazzini, Comte or Proudhon-- Tocqueville] is the man for the late twentieth century. It is the triumph of Andr  Jardin's biography that it shows so clearly how this is so.\"--Hugh Brogan, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Jardin is the complete master of his subject. His portrait of the writer is lucid and well composed, his comments are penetrating, and he draws on a wide range of unfamiliar material... Mr. Jardin is telling astory that has been told many times before. But he manages to recapture much of its original freshness, and he makes effective use, as elsewhere, of previously unpublished documents.\"--John Gross, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jardin gives us a concise and balanced account of Tocqueville's public positions and passions. He does this with economy, grace, thoroughness, and reliability.\"--George Armstrong Kelly, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGracefully traces the trajectory of Tocqueville's multifaceted career and provides and illuminating critique of Democracy in America and Tocqueille's later works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 562\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134148317319,"sku":"9780374521905","price":44.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4e33ff64538ba0efec9a039aba9eefb0.webp?v=1732639447","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/tocqueville-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}