Tocqueville
Subtitle: a biography
By: André Jardin ; translated from the French by Lydia Davis, with Robert Hemenway.
Edition: Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.; Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- North America.; Historians -- France -- Biography.; Statesmen -- France -- Biography.; France -- Politics and government -- 19th century.; United States -- Description and travel.
Genres: Biography.
Description: In his first major biography of the author of Democracy in America, Andre Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic parents in postrevolutionary France, through his trip to antebellum America as a young man, his adventures in Algeria, and his political career in France's Second Republic, to his return to writing and the publication of his other classic work, L'Ancien regime et la revolution, in 1856.

Jardin also offers an illuminating critical analysis of Democracy in America, arguing that the concerns for just government that inform this famous work dominated Tocqueville's thought throughout his life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-538) and index.