From the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of writer Alexis de Tocqueville, born in Paris (1805). He was 25 years old when the French government sent him to America to study the prison system. He spent nine months touring towns and cities …
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Alexis de Tocqueville Would Have Written: “Oligarchy in America”
It’s the birthday of French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville who came to the U.S. about half a century after it was formed to observe and critique its fledgling democracy. Amazed with what he saw, he wrote in his book Democracy in America (1835): “There …
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Voters Want a Level Playing Field for Renewable Energy
The Writer’s Almanac reminds us that it’s the birthday of the French thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville whose visits to the fledgling U.S. in the early 19th Century culminated in his famous book, Democracy in America. According to the …
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