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David A. Bell: Tocqueville, 18 July 2013
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty
by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Princeton, 347 pp., £24.95, April 2013,978 0 691 15204 2 Show More
by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Princeton, 347 pp., £24.95, April 2013,
“... or ‘Democracy in China’, but the occasion seems unlikely to present itself any time soon. Lucien Jaume at first seems to dismiss the idea of enlisting Tocqueville as a guide to our present circumstances: ‘This book will not treat Tocqueville as our contemporary,’ he writes. ‘It will seek rather to restore the distance between him and ... ”
