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Olivier Zunz
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The Man Who Understood Democracy
: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
Olivier Zunz
2022
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‘A Great Democratic Revolution’
Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the material that would become “Democracy in America.”
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Lynn A. Hunt
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New York Review of Books
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November 17, 2022
Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy
American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.
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Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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The New Republic
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April 22, 2022
