On Tocqueville
Subtitle: democracy and America
By: Alan Ryan
Edition: First edition.
Series: Liveright classics; Liveright classics
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780871407047
Subjects: Politics and government; Philosophy; Influence; Democracy; Political and social views
Description: "In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalog the unique features of the American social contract in his two-volume masterpiece, Democracy in America."--book jacket.
Notes: "Portions previously published in On politics: a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present"--Title page verso.