A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through
his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from his journey to
America, barely known. It might be the most famous journey in the
history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed
from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and
observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and
produced the classic Democracy in America. But the United States
was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate
traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville's voyages-by sailing
ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot-across Europe, North
Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings
reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville's character and
sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and
cultural commentary. Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing
political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or
learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities
tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they
were adjusting to rapid social and economic change-the rise of
democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the
expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the
orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently
diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of
Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on
Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed
French colonial settlement in Algeria. Drawing on correspondence,
published writings, speeches, and the recollections of
contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a
panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory
that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center.
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