What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6211319 |
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| Authors | Harvey Mansfield, Delba Winthrop |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 203-205 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-7097 • E-ISSN: 1930-5478 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10457090109602372 |
| OpenAlex | W1966569721 |
| Language | EN |
"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."(...)
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| Highly cited | No |
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