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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels

By Arthur Goldhammer , Alexis de Tocqueville , Oliver Zunz

Book information

Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780813930626
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (36993083 bytes)
Pages
744\739
Topic
History
Time added
2023-05-25 22:11:14
HistoryPhilosophyPoliticsSociologyTravel

Description

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.

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