The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 March 1999
Summary
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of “Democracy in America,” the most-quoted book written about the United States. “The Old Regime and the Revolution” is Tocqueville’s great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Writing in 1851, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385092609 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385092601 |
| Author: | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 267g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 134mm x 205mm |
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Alexis de Tocqueville
One of America’s premier essayists, Joseph Epstein was the editor of “The American Scholar for 25 years and has taught–and continues to teach–advanced prose, the reading and writing of fiction, the sociology of literature, autobiography, literature and politics, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Willa Cather at Northwestern University. Epstein is the author of 13 books, most recently Life Sentences and Narcissus Leaves the Pool, and has published roughly four hundred essays, stories, reviews and articles in such journals as “The New Yorker, Harper’s, Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic
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