Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to
recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His
two-volume classic, Democracy in America, published in 1835,
offered not only a vivid account of the still young nation but
famously predicted what the nation would become, and firmly
established his place in U.S. history. Yet in his own time,
Tocqueville had little evidence for the truth of his ideas.
Introspective, sickly, prone to self-doubt, he was a most unlikely
visionary. In wry, elegant prose, Joseph Epstein, America's most
versatile essayist, offers an engaging and altogether human
portrait of the Frenchman who would become an American icon.
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