Biography and Political Career
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Arnhart, Larry, Statesmanship as Magnanimity: Classical, Christian & Modern, 16(2) Polity 263-283 (1983).
Barksdale, Dudley Channing, Liberal Politics and Nascent Social Science in France: The Academy of Moral and Political Science, 1803-1852 (Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1986).
Bathory, Peter Dennis, The Science of Politics and the Art of Ruling: James Madison and Alexis de Tocqueville, in Leadership in America: Consensus, Corruption, and Charisma 11 (Peter Dennis Bathory, ed; NY: Longman, 1978).
Benoît, Jean-Louis, Alexis de Tocqueville intime, 172 Revue de l'AMPOA 6-10 (avril 2006).
Benoît, Jean-Louis, Tocqueville, un destin paradoxal (Paris: Bayard, 2005)(Biographies).
Bergeron, Gerard, L'interlude canadien pendant le voyage en Amerique d'Alexis de Tocqueville et de Gustave de Beaumont, 12 Tocqueville Review 127-140 (1990/1991).
Boesche, Roger, Tocqueville and Le Commerce: A Newspaper Expressing His Unique Liberalism, 44(2) Journal of the History of Ideas 277-292 (1983).
Brogan, Hugh, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). The Economist selected this book as one of its 100 best for 2006.
Bryant, Clell, Tocqueville’s America, 36(4) Smithsonian 104-107 (July 2005).
Chinard, Gilbert, Alexis de Tocqueville et le Capitaine Basil Hall, 15 Bulletin de l'Institut Français à Washington 9-18 (December 1942).
Clive, John Leonard, The education of Alexis de Tocqueville, in Not By Fact Alone 253-256 (NY: Knopf, 1989).
Coenen-Huther, Jacques, Tocqueville (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1997)(Collection Que sais-je?; 3213).
Cohler, Anne M., Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988).
Collins, Randall and Michael Makowski, The discovery of society (5th ed.; NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993). Includes The Last Gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville, at 53-65.
Coulter, Thomas, Some aspects of the life and thought of Alexis de Tocqueville (Master’s thesis, Kent State University, 1956).
Craiutu, Aurelian, Tocqueville’s Paradoxical Moderation, 67(4) Review of Politics 599-629 (Fall 2005).
Dall'Aglio Maramotti, Michela, Contribution to an Italian bibliography on Alexis de Tocqueville, 13(1) Tocqueville Review 211-224 (1992).
David, Alexis, Alexis de Tocqueville, ministre des affaires etrangeres 2 juin 1849-30 octobre 1849 (Paris: 1968)(Memoire DES: Science politique).
De Caprariis, Vittorio, Profilo di Tocqueville (Napoli: A Guida, 1996)(L'isola di Prospero; 1).
Diez del Corral, Luis, Tocqueville y sus libros sesion conmemorativa de la fiesta nacional del libro español: celebrada el dia 22 de abril de 1980 en la Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid: Instituto de España, 1980; NY: New York Public Library, 1986). One microfiche.
Doran, Eva [Evangeline Maria Cecilia], Two Men and a Forest: Chateaubriand, Tocqueville and the American Wilderness, 13 Essays in French Literature 44 (1976).
Doran, Evangeline Maria Cecilia, "Deux hommes et une epoque": Chateaubriand, Tocqueville and the monarchy of July ... (Master's thesis, University of Rhode Island, 1967).
Dubois, Christian, Alexis de Tocqueville: vie, oeuvres, concepts (Paris: Ellipses, 2004)(Les Grands théoriciens).
Epstein, Joseph, Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide (NY: HarperCollins, 2006)(Eminent Lives Series).
Faguet, Emile, Politicians & moralists of the nineteenth century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1899)(Library of European Political Thought). Translation of series 3: Politiques et moralistes du dix-neuvième siècle.
Faguet, Emile, Politicians & moralists of the nineteenth century (London: E. Benn Ltd., 1928)(Library of European political thought). Translation of series 3.
Faguet, Emile, Politicians & moralists of the nineteenth century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928)(Library of European Political Thought). Translation of series 3: Politiques et moralistes du dix-neuvième siècle.
Faguet, Emile, Politicians & moralists of the nineteenth century (Boston: Little, Brown, n.d.)(Library of European Political Thought). Translation of his "series 3" by Dorothy Galton. Includes writings on Stendhal, Tocqueville, Proudhon, Sainte-Beuve, Taine, Renan.
Faguet, Emile, Politiques et moralistes du dix-neuvieme siecle (3d ed., Paris: Société française d'imprimerie et de librairie, 1901)(Nouvelle bibliothèque littéraire). Volume 3 includes section on Tocqueville.
Faguet, Emile, Politiques et moralistes du dix-neuvieme siecle (Paris: Boivin, 1890)(Nouvelle bibliothèque littéraire). Three volumes. Volume 3 contains material on Tocqueville.
Fields, Henry Michael, Alexis de Tocqueville and the psychology of French liberalism in the eighteen forties (Bachelor's thesis, Harvard University, 1968).
France. Haute Cour de justice, Proces des accuses du 13 juin 1849 precede du Proces du citoyen Huber (affaire du 15 mai 1848) devant la Haute cour de justice : precis historique de la question romaine : lettre de Joseph Mazzini a Mm. de Tocqueville et Falloux : comte-rendu des debats (Paris: Chez Ballard, 1849).
Furet, François, The Intellectual Origins of Tocqueville's Thought, 7 Tocqueville Review 117-129 (1985/1986).
Furet, François, Naissance d'un paradigme: Tocqueville et le voyage en Amerique, 39(2) Annales 225-239 (1984).
Gargan, Edward T. Alexis de Tocqueville: the critical years, 1848-1851 (Dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1955).
Gargan, Edward T., De Tocqueville (New York: Hillary House, 1965)(Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought).
Gewen, Barry, The Man behind the Quotes, 71(22) New Leader 3-4 (December 26, 1988).
Giannetti, Roberto, Interesse e spirito pubblico: note su Tocqueville (Pisa: Giardini, 1994)(Idee e storia; 1).
Goodman, Dena, The republic of letters: a cultural history of the French enlightenment (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994). Includes A reevaluation of Tocqueville.
Grandmaison, Olivier Le Cour, Quand Tocqueville légitimait les boucheries, Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2001
Greg, William Rathbone, Literary and social judgments (4th ed.; London: Trubner, 1877) Two volumes. Includes M. de Tocqueville.
Guicciardi, Jean-Pierre, Tocqueville et les Lumières, in 163 Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 203-219 (Theodore Besterman ed.; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1976).
Jaques, Heinrich, Alexis de Tocqueville: ein lebens- und geistesbild (Wien: C. Gerold's, 1876).
Jardin, André, Alexis de Tocqueville (Paris; Hachette-Pluriel, 1986).
Jardin, André, Tocqueville : a biography (Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway trans.; NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988). Translation of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Jezierski, John V., A Fortnight in the Wilds, 64(3) Michigan History 28-34 (1980).
Jollivet, Adolphe, Observations sur le rapport de M. de Tocqueville relatif a l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies et quelques mots sur la loi des sucres (Paris: Imprimerie de Cosse et G.-Laguionie, 1840; repr. Lost Cause Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 1965)(Slavery pamphlets). One microopaque.
Jollivet, Adolphe, Observations sur le rapport de M. de Tocqueville relatif a l'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies et quelques mots sur la loi des sucres (Paris: Imprimerie de Cosse et G.-Laguionie, 1840).
Kilar, Jeremy W., Tocqueville's Companion Gustave de Beaumont and the Journey into the Michigan Wilderness in 1831, 68(1) Michigan History 34-39 (1984).
Kimball, Roger, Tocqueville Today, The New Criterion Online.
Lacroix, André, Alexis de Tocqueville. Includes links to electronic full texts of Tocqueville's writings.
Lange, Ernst Georg, Frankreichs Preussenpolitik in den Jahren 1849 und 1850 ... (Berlin: Hagendorn, Zippl & Co., 1930. Includes vol. 1: Drouyn de Lhuys und Tocqueville. vol 2: Louis Napoleon und Persigny.
Lange, Ernst Georg, Frankreichs Preussenpolitik in den Jahren 1849 und 1850 ... (Dissertation, University of Berlin, 1930. Includes vol. 1: Drouyn de Lhuys und Tocqueville. vol 2: Louis Napoleon und Persigny.
Lawlor, Mary, Alexis de Tocqueville in the Chamber of Deputies: his views on foreign and colonial policy (Dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1959).
Lawlor, Mary, Alexis de Tocqueville in the Chamber of Deputies: his views on foreign and colonial policy (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1959).
LeClercq, Jean-Michel, Alexis de Tocqueville au Canada (du 24 aout au 2 septembre 1831), 22 Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique 353-365 (1968).
Le Cour Grandmaison, Olivier, Quand Tocqueville legitimait les boucheries, Le Monde diplomatique, June 2001, at 12.
Letessier, Fernand, Cinq lettres inedites de Tocqueville à Lamartine, 83(3) Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France 451 (1983).
Liebersohn, Harry, Discovering indigenous nobility : Tocqueville, Chamisso, and romantic travel writing, 99(3) American Historical Review 746-766 (June 1994).
Mancini, Matthew, Alexis de Tocqueville (NY: Twayne Publishers; 1994)(Twayne's World Authors Series; TWAS 848).
Marchand, Philippe, La participation d'Alexis de Tocqueville a l'elaboration de la constitutions de 1848 (Paris: 1965)(Memoire DES: Science Politique).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville (Paris: Gallimard, 1948)(Leurs figures).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville, Prophet des Massenzeitalters (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1954).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville: estudio biografico de ciencia politica (Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1965)(Colecction Semblanzas). Translation of Prophet of the mass age.
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville; a biographical essay in political science (NY: Viking Press, 1940).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville; a biographical study in political science with a new essay, "Tocqueville after a century" (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1966).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville (New York: Arno Press, 1979).
Mayer, Jacob Peter, Prophet of the mass age: a study of Alexis de Tocqueville (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1939).
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Ai signori Tocqueville e Falloux, ministri di Francia: lettera (Losanna: Società editrice l'Unione, 1849, repr. Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, Cambridge, MA, 1993)(Project 2a; 21652). One microfilm reel.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Lettera di Giuseppe Mazzini ai signori Tocqueville e Falloux, ministri di Francia (Torino: F. G. Crivellari, 1849, repr. Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, 1992)(Project 2s; 20974). One microfilm reel.
English: Mazzini, Giuseppe, The letter of Mazzini, the Roman triumvir, to Falloux and de Tocqueville, ministers of the French republic (Liverpool: T. Baines, 18??; repr. Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, Cambridge, MA, 1993)(Project 2a; 22718). One microfilm reel.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Lettera di Giuseppe Mazzini, intorno gli affari di Roma, ai sigg. de Tocqueville e de Falloux, ministri della repubblica francese (S. l.; s.n., 18??, repr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, 1993)(Harvard Risorgimento preservation microfilm project. Project 2a; 22719).
English: Mazzini, Giuseppe, French intervention in Rome: a letter to Messrs. de Tocqueville & de Falloux, ministers of France (London: Charles Fox, A. & H. Holyoake, 1849).
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Lettre de Mazzini sur les evenemens (sic) de Rome (Paris: Marchands de Nouveautes, 1849)
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Lettre de Mazzini sur les evenemens (sic) de Rome (Paris: Marchands de Nouveautes, 1849; repr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, 1993)(Harvard Risorgimento preservation microfilm project. Project 2a). One microfilm reel.
Mélonio, Françoise, Tocqueville et la restauration du pouvoir temporel du pape (juin-octobre 1849), 271(1) Revue Historique 109-123 (1984). "Tocqueville and the restoration of papal power (June-October 1849).
Mignet, François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis, Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. Alexis de Tocqueville ... (Paris: F. Didot Frères, 1866)(Institut Imperial de France).
Mussard, Alexandre, Chastellux et Tocqueville, 13(2) Tocqueville Review 175-179 (1992).
Nantet, Jacques, Actualite de Tocqueville, 1 Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes 79-87 (1971).
Nantet, Jacques, Royer-Collard, Guizot, Tocqueville et le parti du mouvement, 3 Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes, 570-581 (March 1972).
Nantet, Jacques, Tocqueville (Paris: Seghers, 1971)(Les Maitres modernes; 7).
Pippidi, A., Tocqueville as Minister for Foreign affairs and the Moldo-Wallachians, 32(1/2) Revue Roumaine d'Histoire 147-153 (January/June 1993). get original title
Pisa, Karl, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet der Massenzeitalters ; ein Biographie (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984).
Pontmartin, Armand, comte de, Alexis de Tocqueville, in Causeries du samedi: deuxieme serie des causeries litteraires -- (Paris: M. Levy Frères, 1857)(Bibliotheque contemporaine; 2 ser.)
Quoniam, Théodore, Alexis de Tocqueville en Amérique, 8 Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes 497-500 (1976).
Randall, James G., and R. N. Current, The farseeing visitor: Alexis de Tocqueville, 6(4) American Heritage -- (June 1955).
Redier, Antoine, Comme disait Monsieur de Tocqueville ... (Paris: Perrin, 1925).
Roazen, Paul, Tocqueville Studies, 67(2) Virginia Quarterly Review 354-360 (1991).
Robien, Gilles de, Alexis de Tocqueville (Paris: Flammarion, 2000)(Grandes biographies).
Rollet, Jacques, Tocqueville (Paris: Montchréstien, 1998)(Clefs).
Schleifer, James T., Images of America after the Revolution: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visit the early republic, 51(3) Yale University Library Gazette 125-144 (January 1977).
Siedentop, Larry, Tocqueville (Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994)(Past masters).
Smith, D. A., A conversation with Tocqueville, 1854, 10 Tocqueville Review 239-243 (1989/1990).
Steinert, Heinz, and Hubert Treiber, Die Revolution und ihre Theorien: Frankreich 1848: Marx, v. Stein, Tocqueville im aktuellen Vergleich (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975)(Studienbucher zur Sozialwissenschaft; 28).
Thiers, Adolphe, Rapporto del signor Thiers all'Assemblea nazionale di Francia e discorso del sig. di Tocqueville intorno agli affari d'Italia (Roma: Pallotta, 1850?, repr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library Microreproduction Service, 1994). get name of Tocqueville's speech. Give original French title.
Tocqueville and 1848 (Milton Keynes: Open University, 1976). With Marx in 1848. Sound cassette.
Towle, George Makepeace, Alexis de Tocqueville, in Glimpses of History (Boston: W. V. Spencer, 1866).
Vallee, Jacques, Tocqueville au Bas-Canada, 12 Tocqueville Review 141-182 (1990/1991).
Watkins, Sharon B., Alexis de Tocqueville and the Second Republic, 1848-1852: A Study in Political Practice and Principles (University Press of America, 2003).
Webb, L. C., A note on Alexis de Tocqueville, in Liberty and learning: essays in honour of Sir James Hight (R. S. Allen ed.; Chistchurch, New Zealand: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1950).
Welch, Cheryl B., De Tocqueville (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Wolin, Sheldon S., Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
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