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What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: "Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading \nhim even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president \nsińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our \nprofessors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for \nwhat they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy \nin America."(...)

Source: Perspectives on Political Science

DOI: 10.1080/10457090109602372

Authors: Harvey Mansfield, Delba Winthrop

Language: English

Topic: Political Theory and Influence

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1966569721

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