Tocqueville

by André Jardin

Book Overview

"Tocqueville: A Biography is a book of considerable importance, primarily because of its comprehensive treatment of both Tocqueville's public life and his private life--including many details... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374278369
• ISBN13: 9780374278366
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Delightful surprise

This is a wonderful biography. I knew that Tocqueville was a great thinker, but I thought that his life would be boring (are thoughts worth being told? Yes, this book indeed proves it). However, the author manages to narrate Tocqueville's life and times in such a way that I could not put it down, and read it in less than a week's time. So I may not think of a better book to commemorate Tocqueville's bicentennial anniversary and I fully agree and endorse, as my own, the other reviewer's opinion.