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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels

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Focusing on American equality, Tocqueville made a lasting contribution to Western political thought by framing modern history as a continuous struggle between political liberty and social equality, and presented the United States as having struck a proper balance between the two ideals. Beaumont concentrated instead on the brutality of racial prejudice. These extraordinarily rich and often profound texts constitute the indispensable record of their intertwined engagement with the United States, which we see here through the unfailingly intelligent gaze of two young Frenchmen with a unique appreciation of what was novel in the American experiment.
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Year:
2010
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Language:
English
Pages:
744
ISBN 13:
9780813930626
ISBN:
9780813930626

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