Posted on 21/04/07
The life and troubled times of the 'greatest political thinker'
Alexis de Tocqueville:A LifeBy Hugh BroganYale University Press,720 pages, $40.95'Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time." So aptly begins the jacket blurb for this sprawling biography. Someone should have read this blurb to Hugh Brogan. For his book succeeds least in capturing the side of Tocqueville's life that mattered most.
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