Olivier Zunz

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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
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