Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics

Why did the French Revolution lead to the Terror when the American Revolution yielded a liberal democracy? Tocqueville spent his life trying to understand the p

One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and the moder

We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. This did not mean, as so many have believ

Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way t