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No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious attempt to understand America and democracy itself. Yet Tocqueville himself remains a mystery behind the elegance of his style. Now one of our leading authorities on Tocqueville explains him in this splendid new entry in Oxford's acclaimed Very Short Introductions series. Harvey Mansfield addresses his subject as a thinker, clearly and incisively exploring Tocqueville's writings-not only his masterpiece, but also his secret Recollections, intended for posterity alone, and his unfinished work on his native France, The Old Regime and the Revolution. Tocqueville was a liberal, Mansfield writes, but not of the usual sort. The many elements of his life found expression in his thought: his aristocratic ancestry, his ventures in politics, his voyages abroad, his hopes and fears for America, and his disappointment with France. All his writings show a passion for political liberty and insistence on human greatness. Perhaps most important, he saw liberty not in theories, but in the practice of self-government in America. Ever an opponent of abstraction, he offered an analysis that forces us to consider what we actually do in our politics-suggesting that theory itself may be an enemy of freedom. And that, Mansfield writes, makes him a vitally important thinker for today. Translator of an authoritative edition of Democracy in America, Harvey Mansfield here offers the fruit of decades of research and reflection in a clear, insightful, and marvelously compact introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Taylor s stories, many of which originally appeared in "The New Yorker, " are her central achievement. Here are self-improving spinsters and gossiping girls, war orphans and wallflowers, honeymooners and Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction free pdf barmaids, mistresses and murderers. Margaret Drabble s new selection reveals a writer whose wide sympathies and restless curiosity are matched by a steely penetration into the human heart and mind." Here, Hepburn s career is charted from her early years in London as a student of ballet and a performer on the West End stage to her Hollywood heyday to her final years as a special ambassador for the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF). Alongside work by the renowned photographers whose portraits defined Hepburn s image and shaped her career are publicity photographs, images during the production of her films, as well as rare family photographs and other informal archive pictures.

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Author: Harvey C. Mansfield
Number of Pages: 136 pages
Published Date: 13 Jul 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780195175394
Download Link: Click Here
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