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The man who could see it coming.(Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution)(Book review)
Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution, by Hugh Brogan; Profile, 2006, 30 [pounds sterling].
THIS NEW BIOGRAPHY of Alexis de Tocqueville is not a great book. The question is: Why not? It is clearly the fruit of a lifetime's thought and research. It is learned, lucid and thorough. It may even be the best biography of Tocqueville yet written. But it is not, for all that, a great work of history, nor the book its subject deserves. Why?
The answer has to do with the difference between a great historian, such as Tocqueville himself, and one who is merely good. Hugh Brogan, a former journalist for the Economist and author of the ...
- A Cousin worthy of visiting.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Modern Age Amato, Joseph A. June 22, 2008 700+ words
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan (New Haven and London...spirit to the young Tocqueville, Brogan describes a single...political career. Brogan argues, at points aggressively, that Tocqueville never intellectually...
- America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Mancini, Matthew February 1, 2004 700+ words
...appears to have taken Brogan's major criticism...preparing America after Tocqueville. (Brogan's review appeared...focused effort to assess Tocqueville's accomplishments...historian (which is why Brogan's critique was at...
- Looking for America.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Mitchell, Joshua August 1, 2007 700+ words
...35 Reviewed by Joshua Mitchell HUGH BROGAN'S Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit of...of labor on "an old friend," as Brogan calls Tocqueville. Throughout his book, Brogan provides a riveting account of the...
- Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Ladd, Matthew March 1, 2008 700+ words
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life By Hugh Brogan (Yale UP, 2007...Bonaparte dictator. Tocqueville himself was born in 1805 but Hugh Brogan begins his 700...Democratie also made Tocqueville famous practically overnight, and Brogan duly treats us...
- Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review December 22, 2007 700+ words
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography. Hugh Brogan. Profile Books...troubled soul. Hugh Brogan provides far more...and influence of Tocqueville's English-born...Catholic Church. Mr Brogan's discussion of Tocqueville's other book...
- Virtue's Aristocrat.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: National Review Aeschliman, M.D. April 2, 2007 700+ words
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life, by Hugh Brogan (Yale, 736 pp...surveying the history of Tocqueville scholarship, the distinguished...great biography of Tocqueville appeared in French...built on it, Hugh Brogan's Life, an outstanding...
- Tocqueville Between Two Worlds
- Magazine article from: The American Spectator Harriss, Joseph A May 1, 2007 700+ words
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan (YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS...the British historian Hugh Brogan's masterfully researched...probing new biography shows Tocqueville in the round, with all...
- Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy.
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Kessler, Sanford March 1, 1997 700+ words
...Manent's book illuminates the core of Tocqueville's political philosophy as it appears...Manent defines his interpretive task, as Tocqueville did, by the nature and needs of his audience. Tocqueville sought to reconcile a dying but still...
