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

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer, Gustave Auguste de Beaumont

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocrat of twenty-five, worried deeply about the future of France as well as his own fate in his native country, which had just experienced its second revolution in less than fifty years. Along with Gustave de Beaumont, a fellow magistrate, Tocqueville conceived the idea that by traveling to America he could penetrate the secret of the modern world, in which democracy and equality were destined to rule.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930626
• ISBN13: 9780813930626
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher