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Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes), political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835–40), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century.

French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s official purpose was to study the American penal system, but his real interest was America herself. He spent nine months criss-crossing the young country, traveling mostly by steamboat, but also sometimes on horseback and by foot.

Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes), French political scientist, historian, and politician. Born into an aristocratic family, he entered government service by choice.

Alexis de Tocqueville - French Historian, Sociologist: Tocqueville’s reputation in the 19th century reached its high point during the decade following his death as the great European powers accommodated themselves to universal suffrage. He died just at the onset of a revival of liberalism in France.

Alexis de Tocqueville’s four-volume Democracy in America (1835-1840) is commonly said to be among the greatest works of nineteenth-century political writing. Its daring conjectures, elegant ...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a thinker pulled between several worlds. He was an aristocrat by both birth and temperament, but he never lived in an aristocratic society, and his crowning achievement was to compose the most celebrated study of democracy ever written.

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville K-vil, French: ; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), usually known as just Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution .