Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces <i>Democracry in America</i> and <i>The Old Regime and the Revolution</i>. In this volume Alan S. Kahan one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker.