A comprehensive portrait of the great French political thinker explores his life, work, travels in the United States, and writing of "Democracy in America."

An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Te

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s, showing a primarily fa

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville mad