Alexis de Tocqueville Books

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America was published in two parts, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. In 1831 the French government sent Tocqueville, then a 35 year old aristocrat ..

American Institutions and Their Influence

Alexis de Tocqueville

The following work of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has attracted great attention throughout Europe, where it is universally regarded as a sound, philosophical, impartial, and remarkably clear and distinct view o..