Tocqueville in America
In this impressively researched biographical study, first published in 1938, George Wilson Pierson assembles an extraordinary amount of material about Tocqueville's nine-month tour: letters, newspaper accounts, memoirs. The result is a monumental companion, as illuminating about a classic work of history and sociology as that work is about democracy in America.(Washington Post)In the opportunity which he offers for such a study of the evolution of one of the world's great books, Professor Pierson has made a historical contribution of altogether exceptional importance.(New York Times Book Review)