Front Page Authors (by Period) Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

1805 - 1859

About the Author

Tocqueville was an enormously influential French political philosopher, politician, and historian. After a trip to the U.S. in 1831 to observe the penal system he wrote Democracy in America (1835). He served as a member of parliament in the July Monarchy and the 1848 Revolution, writing an important memoir about the events of that upheaval. His last major work was a unfinished history of The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (1856).

In The Library:

• author: L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)
• author: De la Démocratie en Amérique, 4 vols. (1835)
• author: De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 1 (1835)
• author: De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 2 (1835)
• author: De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 3 (1835)
• author: De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 4 (1835)