The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville is written by Roger Boesche and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501745514 (ISBN 10) and 9781501745515 (ISBN 13).

The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville places Tocqueville's political though in the context of his time and place, and shows why his ideas defy easy classification. Responding to the twentieth-century tendency to impose anachronistic political categories on Tocqueville, Roger Boesche reminds us that like Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Flaubert, and other writers of his generation, he was a nineteenth-century Frenchman reacting to contemporary French concerns, aspirations, and anxieties.