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Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Brown cloth binding with gilt print on the spine. The only library marking on the book is a card envelope on the front end paper. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge tears and a few small soil spots on the back. 417 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; Copyright 1985 with full number line. Very good hardcover with a very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Brown cloth boards are free of markings and corners remain sharp. Gold gilt titling on spine is bright and bold. Text is very good throughout. Unclipped dust jacket ($24.95) has rubbing, front inner flap is unevenly yellowed, no chips or tears. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Berkeley. 1985. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520050479. Edited by Roger Boesche. Translated by James Toupin and Roger Boesche. 288 pages. hardcover. Cover: Alexis de Tocqueville by Chassériau. Versailles, Musées nationaux. Jacket design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: History America France. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Despite widespread admiration for his remarkable insight into American society, Alexis de Tocqueville remains an anomalous figure to most readers. He is known principally for his great work Democracy in America, although occasionally The Old Regime and the French Revolution and his Recollections about the 1848 Revolution and its aftermath appear on college reading lists. As a scholar, he fits no modern category neatly. As a political scientist who wrote an enduring analysis of American politics, the nineteenth century's finest French historian, a precursor of the modern sociologist, and a practical politician elected to the Chamber of Deputies and appointed Foreign Minister of France, Tocqueville offers something for everyone. Yet it is hard to assimilate all these parts into a whole. This volume offers the first English translation of a broad selection of his letters to appear in this century. It gives an overview of Tocqueville's political ideas and political life. It traces Tocqueville from his adolescent fascination with England through his early days as a lawyer, his journey to North America, his writing of Democracy in America, his frustrating career as an opposition politician in the Chamber of Deputies, his immediate reactions to the 1848 Revolution, and finally his renewed political writing during his forced retirement from politics under Louis Napoleon's Second Empire. Although these letters emphasize Tocqueville as a political thinker and actor, they unavoidably characterize Tocqueville as an individual as well. His letters are especially important in this regard because, although there are sketches of his life, there is no complete and detailed biography. His letters disclose the man behind the aristocratic and calmly analytical exterior-his private anxieties, the importance he attached to friendship, his disenchantment with his era, the value of religion in his personal life, and (perhaps surprising to those who think of Tocqueville as bookish) his yearning for meaningful action. inventory #10937.
