The Tocqueville Reader A Life in Letters and Politics [Paperback]

The Tocqueville Reader includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. It includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer.

Chronology.

Part I: The Discovery of Democracy in America:.

Preliminary Note.

Illustration: Map of the American Voyage.

1. Travel Letters: First Impressions of America and Important Sketches of Democracy in America, 1831.

2. Excerpts from American Notebooks: Tocqueville's Conversations with His American Informants; Travel Impressions on the Road.

3. Volume One of Democracy in America, 1835.

Part II: Great Britain, France, and the United States:.

Preliminary Note.

4. Discovery of England, Poverty, Pauperism, and Social Policy, 1835-1837.

5. Ambitions, Marriage, and Tocqueville's Views of His Own Brand of Liberalism, 1833-1840.

6. Volume Two of Democracy in America.

Part III: The Years in Politics:.

Preliminary Note.

7. Tocqueville's Political Philosophy.

8. Tocqueville the Colonialist.

9. Tocqueville in 1848.

10. Tocqueville Retires from Political Life and Returns to Writing.

Part IV: The Return to The Old Regime and the Revolution:.

Preliminary Note.

11. The Old Regime and the Revolution Volumel³9