Author

Books by Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French political thinker, historian, and statesman. He served as a magistrate and later as a member of the French legislative assembly and briefly as Foreign Minister under the Second Republic. Besides Democracy in America, his major work is The Old Regime and the Revolution, a historical analysis of the French Revolution's relationship to the Ancien Régime. Tocqueville is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern political sociology and one of the most perceptive analysts of democratic society ever to write.