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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville 

byOlivier Zunz

Centered on the life of alexis de tocqueville, The Man Who Understood Democracy shows Olivier Zunz tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. The Man Who Understood Democracy combines biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of biography & autobiography and political science, The Man Who Understood Democracy explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. The Man Who Understood Democracy emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

472

ISBN

9780691173979