The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

by Olivier Zunz

🏆 Winner of the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique 2022

An excellent biography of Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century French politician and author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Regime and the Revolution.

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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

by Olivier Zunz

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King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

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Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Atticus
by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall

Agricola
by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)

King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair