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Item number:320446355277
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Author: Hugh BroganPublisher: Yale Univ Pr
ISBN-10: 0300108036Subject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9780300108033Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2007Condition: Like New
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This flesh-and-blood biography of the Frenchman who, some say, understood America better than most Americans provides an insightful picture of Alexis de Tocqueville's important relationships--to his aristocratic family, to his beloved English wife, and to France. Tocqueville wrote admiringly of the American character in his masterwork, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, but Brogan shows that he was also an astute observer of French history and mores, as he places Tocqueville in the historical and political context of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the age of Napoleon. Brogan's vivid telling of Tocqueville's life of hope and disappointment broadens and deepens our understanding of a man too often limited to a single book--great though it may be.

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Length:724 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.8 in.
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Weight:40.0 oz.

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"Hugh Brogan has taken almost forty-five years to write ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE....The wait has been worth it. The book is full of insight into Tocqueville the sociologist, historian, social prophet, and liberal politician, but it is as a biography that it triumphs."
 (11/22/2007)

"Hugh Brogan's account of Tocqueville's life is written with a stylish brio and command of detail and narrative worthy of his subject. It is almost as great a pleasure to read as Tocqueville himself."
 (02/23/2007)

"Hugh Brogan is not just a sure-footed guide to a brilliant, though elusive, theorist. He has a historian's grasp of the period and a novelist's gift for character. As a portrait of a complicated man, a teeming milieu and a world in tumult, ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE has the satisfying fullness of 19th-century fiction."
 (11/25/2006)

"It is hard to do justice to the artistry with which Brogan renders this complicated character....Though I have read Tocqueville on and off for many years, I felt as if I knew the man behind the writings for the first time. Brogan has given us a masterly reconstruction of the European milieu by which Tocqueville was formed, and the definitive biography of one of the nineteenth century's most representative thinkers."
 (12/01/2006)


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