Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes America

Alexis de Tocqueville — French Historian born on July 29, 1805, died on April 16, 1859

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science... (wikipedia)