Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels
Read a fragment
Instant download
after payment (24/7)
Wide range of formats
(for all gadgets)
Full book
(including for Apple and Android)
Focusing on American equality, Tocqueville made a lasting contribution to Western political thought by framing modern history as a continuous struggle between political liberty and social equality, and presented the United States as having struck a proper balance between the two ideals. Beaumont concentrated instead on the brutality of racial prejudice. These extraordinarily rich and often profound texts constitute the indispensable record of their intertwined engagement with the United States, which we see here through the unfailingly intelligent gaze of two young Frenchmen with a unique appreciation of what was novel in the American experiment.
LF/871726/R
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Arthur Goldhammer
Oliver Zunz - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780813930626
- Release date
- 2010
15 books by the same author:
Products from this category:
Focusing on American equality, Tocqueville made a lasting contribution to Western political thought by framing modern history as a continuous struggle betwee...