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Tocqueville's Discovery of America

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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo DamroschPublish date:2011-04-12Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374532598ISBN-10:374532591UPC:9780374532598Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRK4KRAT4

Tocqueville's Discovery of America

Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374532598ISBN-10:374532591UPC:9780374532598Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, ModernBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRK4KRAT4

Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of several works, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in nonfiction.


Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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