Commager on Tocqueville (Volume 1)
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ISBN: 0826208975 / Publisher: University of Missouri, June 1993
Commager explores the themes of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America , his concern not so much with what Tocqueville says about America and democracy in the 1830s as with how his work illuminates the same subjects in the 1990s. The essays are based on a series of lectures. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Commager on Tocqueville is Henry Steele Commager's masterful interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Using Tocqueville's classic as a vehicle for discussing such contemporary issues as the environment, civil rights, and the military-industrial complex, Commager calls for a new vision of American leadership that trascends nationalism.
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