Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: It’s still the one—the single best book about America, if one has to choose only one, and more generally about the pathologies and possibilities of democracy. --Wilfred M. McClay, What to Give a 'First Things' Reader, First Things, December 2008


Recommended reading:
by Alexis de Tocqueville at Reading Rat


Reference: Tocqueville's America, American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Democracy's Prophet by Joseph J. Ellis, review of Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan, The Washington Post Book World, April 6, 2007
republished at Powell's Review-A-Day

The vivid dreams of Alexis de Tocqueville by Ferdinand Mount, review of Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of democracy in the age of revolution, Times Literary Supplement, February 21, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

It took a Frenchman, review of Alexis de Tocqueville, by Hugh Brogan, The Economist, November 23, 2006
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

L'Amérique, Mon Amour, review by Daniel Lazare of Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, and Writings on Empire and Slavery, by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Jennifer Pitts, The Nation, April 8, 2004

An Ambivalent Tocqueville, by Delba Winthrop, review of Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, by Sheldon S. Wolin, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2002

Tocqueville from the Left, review by Daniel J. Mahoney of Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Theoretical and Political Life, by Sheldon S. Wolin, First Things, March 2002

Tocqueville today, by Roger Kimball; A consideration of Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, The New Criterion, November 2000

Tocqueville's Mirror, review by Brian C. Anderson of Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, by Pierre Manent, First Things, March 1996