By Françoise Mélonio, professor of literature and leading specialist on his work. She skillfully captures the unity between the private man and the political actor.

By Françoise Mélonio, professor of literature and leading specialist on his work. She skillfully captures the unity between the private man and the political actor.
A central figure in political thought, Alexis de Tocqueville never ceased to explore both the promises and the weaknesses of democracy. Behind the author of Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution also lies a man of many facets: a curious traveler, a rooted aristocrat, and a concerned observer who nonetheless trusted in the future of free societies