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The Americans had the chances of birth in their favor; and their forefathers imported that equality of conditions into the country,\u00a0<\/i>whence the democratic republic has very naturally taken its rise.\u00a0<\/i>Nor was this all they did; for besides this republican condition of society, the early settlers <\/i>bequeathed to their descendants those customs, manners, and opinions, which contribute most to the success of a republican form of government.<\/i><\/p>\n

Alexis de Tocqueville,\u00a0American Institutions and Their Influence\u00a0294 (A.S. Barnes & Co. 1854)<\/p>\n

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Abbott, James,\u00a0Whither Tocqueville in American Sociology?<\/em>\u00a038(1)\u00a0American Sociologist<\/u>\u00a060-77 (March 2007).\u00a0On the diminishing influence of Tocqueville on sociologists.<\/em><\/p>\n

Audier, Serge,\u00a0Machiavel, Tocqueville, Marx, dans la pens\u00e9e politique fran\u00e7aise depuis l\u2019entre-deux guerres<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Universit\u00e9 de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2000).<\/p>\n

Ajzenstadt, Janet,\u00a0French Canada and the Liberal Theory of Nationality: Some Now Unpopular 19th Century Ideas<\/em>, 65(2)\u00a0Dalhousie Review<\/u>\u00a0182-195 (1985).<\/p>\n

Aron, Raymond,\u00a0Il recupero di Tocqueville<\/em>, 38(186)\u00a0Comunit\u00e0<\/u>\u00a0118-134 (1984). English title:\u00a0The revival of Tocqueville<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Aron, Raymond,\u00a0Tocqueville and Marx<\/em>, in\u00a0History, Truth, Liberty<\/u>\u00a0165-195 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).<\/p>\n

Aron, Raymond,\u00a0Tocqueville retrouv\u00e9,\u00a0<\/em>1\u00a0The Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0— 1979.<\/p>\n

Auletta, Ken,\u00a0If Tocqueville Could See Us Now<\/em>, 33(4)\u00a0American Heritage<\/u>\u00a08-17 (1982).<\/p>\n

Barzun, Jacques,\u00a0Notes on Tocqueville’s Interpreters<\/em>, 7\u00a0Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0149-155 (1985\/1986).<\/p>\n

Bates, Clifford, Jr., Aristotle, Tocqueville, and “Populism Rightly Understood,” Vogelin View, August 29, 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Baunard, Mgr.,\u00a0La foi et ses victoires dans le si\u00e8cle present<\/u>\u00a0(2d ed.; Paris: Poussielgue Fr\u00e8res, 1884)(Le combat de la foi; etudes biographiques et apologetiques; 3 serie). Includes material on Frederic Bastiat, Joseph Droz, Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre Le Play.<\/p>\n

Beloff, Max,\u00a0Tocqueville and the Americans,<\/em>\u00a0170 Fortnightly Review 573-579 (1951).<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0Tocqueville aurait-il enfin trouv\u00e9 ses juges?<\/em>\u00a027\u00a0Res publica<\/u>\u00a0\u2013 (December 2001).<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0Relectures de Tocqueville<\/em>, 16\u00a0Le Banquet<\/u>\u00a0\u2013 (December 2001).<\/p>\n

Bentzel, Anne,\u00a0Traveling Tocqueville\u2019s America: Retracing the 17-state Tour That Inspired Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s Political Classic\u00a0Democracy in America<\/em><\/u>\u00a0(Baltimore, MD: Published for C-SPAN by the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).<\/p>\n

Boudon, Raymond,\u00a0Tocqueville aujourd’hui<\/u>\u00a0(Paris; Odile Jacob, 2005)(Science humaine).<\/p>\n

Brogan, Hugh,\u00a0XII: Tocqueville revisited<\/em>, 41\u00a0History Today<\/u>\u00a049-52 (December 1991).<\/p>\n

Bryant, Clell,\u00a0Tocqueville\u2019s America,<\/em>\u00a036(4)\u00a0Smithsonian<\/u>\u00a0104-107 (July 2005).<\/p>\n

Byrne, D. S.\u00a0Review Essay: Tocqueville in a Conservative World.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Australian Review of Public Affairs Digest, February 13, 2006.\u00a0Review of The Tocqueville Reader (Oliver Zunz and Alan S. Kahan ed.)(Blackwell Publishing, 2002).<\/em><\/p>\n

Caplow, Theodore,\u00a0The Current Relevance of\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 7\u00a0Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0137-147 (1985\/1986).<\/p>\n

Carey, Peter,\u00a0Parrot and Olivier<\/u>\u00a0(Camberwell: Hamish Hamilton, 2009).\u00a0A fictionalized account of a French aristocrat’s visit to the United States in the early 1830s.<\/em>\u00a0 Olivier is the character based on Tocqueville.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carrington, Paul D., Moths to the Light: The Dubious Attractions of American Law,<\/em> 46\u00a0University of Kansas Law Review 673-686 (1998).<\/p>\n

Cohen, David,\u00a0Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville\u2019s Footsteps Through Contemporary America<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Godalming: Picador USA; Melia, 2002).<\/p>\n

Couture, Yves,\u00a0Philosophie politique et modernit\u00e9: deux reappropriations critiques de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: The Author, 1990)(Memoire et DEA: Doctrine et philosophie politiques).<\/p>\n

De Tocqueville vs Blair<\/em>,\u00a0Spectator<\/u>, May 20, 1995, at 7.<\/p>\n

Delogu, C. Jon, Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (Open Humanities Press, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

Dolence, David M.\u00a0Tocquevillian Political Associations, Social Capital, and the Centralizing Tendency of Democracy in the United States<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Northern Illinois University, 2006).<\/p>\n

Drago, Roland,\u00a0Actualit\u00e9 de Tocqueville (Tocqueville et l’administration)<\/em>, 139(4)\u00a0Revue des Sciences Morales et Politiques<\/u>\u00a0633-645 (1984).\u00a0Tocqueville’s Relevance Today: Tocqueville on Administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Draper, Theodore,\u00a0The Idea of the “Cold War” and Its Prophets: On Tocqueville & Others<\/em>,\u00a0Encounter<\/u>, February 1979, at 34-45.<\/p>\n

Drosnay, Arthur de,\u00a0Les petits mysteres de l’Academie Fran\u00e7aise, revelations d’un envieux …<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: Chez Saint-Jorre et chez Dentu, 1844). Includes essay on Tocqueville.<\/p>\n

Furet, Fran\u00e7ois,\u00a0Aron r\u00e9introducteur de Tocqueville,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Raymond Aron, la philosophie de l’histoire et les sciences sociales<\/u>\u00a0(J.-C. Chamboredon, ed.; Paris: Editions Rue d’Lum, 1999).<\/p>\n

Freund, Dorrit,\u00a0Aktuelle Gedanken zur Demokratie bei Alexis de Tocqueville und Max Weber,<\/em>\u00a053\u00a0Schweizer Monathefte<\/u>\u00a0857-862 (1974).<\/p>\n

Gauchet, M.,\u00a0Tocqueville, l’Am<\/em>\u00e9rique\u00a0et nous. Sur la gen\u00e8se des soci\u00e8tes d\u00e9mocratiques,<\/em>\u00a080-87\u00a0Libre<\/u>\u00a0— ().<\/p>\n

Gerhard, Dietrich,\u00a0Tocqueville und die Vereinigten Staaten von heute,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Historische Forschungen und Probleme: Peter Rassow zum 70. Geburtstag<\/u>\u00a0(Karl E. Born ed., Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1961).<\/p>\n

Gilman, Daniel C.,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and His Book on America–Sixty Years After,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>56\u00a0The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine<\/u>\u00a0703-715 (May\/October 1898).<\/p>\n

Goldhammer, Arthur S.,\u00a0Translating Tocqueville: The Constraints of Classicism.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gordon, Sheryl,\u00a0In the Shade of Tocqueville\u00a0(Dissertation, City University of New York, 2011).<\/p>\n

Hansen, Klaus J.,\u00a0The Changing Fortunes of Tocqueville’s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 89(1)\u00a0Queen’s Quarterly<\/u>\u00a0233-237 (Spring 1982).<\/p>\n

Heilprin, M.,\u00a0De Tocqueville in the United States,<\/em>\u00a01\u00a0Nation<\/u>\u00a0247-249 (August 24, 1865).<\/p>\n

Hoeges, Dirk, Alexis de Tocqueville–Literatur im Zeitalter der Gleichheit<\/em>, 1982\u00a0Siegener Hochschulbl\u00e4tter<\/u>\u00a044-55.<\/p>\n

Jenkinson, Clay,\u00a0Five Reasons to Read Tocqueville’s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Josephson, Mathew,\u00a0A Century After Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a014\u00a0Virginia Quarterly Review<\/u>\u00a0579-595 (Autumn 1938).<\/p>\n

Kasinitz, Philip,\u00a0Missing Tocqueville?\u00a0<\/em>21(4) Sociological Forum 693-694 (December 2006).<\/p>\n

Keane, John,\u00a0Why Read Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”?\u00a0<\/em> The Conversation, April 27, 2015.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Kessel, Eberhard,\u00a0Das Tocqueville-Problem: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der neuesten Literatur,<\/em>\u00a01\u00a0Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Amerikastudien<\/u>\u00a0168-176 (1956).<\/p>\n

Kimball, Roger,\u00a0Tocqueville Today<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The New Criterion Online<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Kimball, Roger,\u00a0Tocqueville Today,\u00a0<\/em>19(3)\u00a0New Criterion<\/u>\u00a04-11 (November 2000).<\/p>\n

King, Richard H.,\u00a0Arendt, Tocqueville, and Cold War America,\u00a0<\/em>in Arendt and America 89 (University of Chicago Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

Lawler, Peter Augustine,\u00a0Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today<\/u>\u00a0(Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).<\/p>\n

Lawler, Peter Augustine,\u00a0Tocqueville at 200<\/em>, 35(2) Perspectives on Political Science \u00a068-72 (Spring 2006).<\/span><\/h4>\n

Le Strat, Claire, and Willy Pelletier,\u00a0La canonisation lib\u00e9rale d’Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Paris? Syllepse, 2005)<\/p>\n

Leroy, Maxime,\u00a0Tocqueville est-il actuel?<\/em>\u00a02\u00a0Preuves<\/u>\u00a072-74 (juin 1952).<\/p>\n

Lukacs, John,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville: A Historical Appreciation<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a05(1)\u00a0Literature of Liberty<\/u>\u00a08-42 (1982).<\/p>\n

Maguire, Matthew William,\u00a0The Conversion of Enlightenment\u00a0(Dissertation, Harvard University, 1999).<\/p>\n

Maguire, Matthew William,\u00a0The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal Through Rousseau to Tocqueville\u00a0(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).\u00a0Based on the author\u2019s dissertation.<\/i><\/p>\n

Mancini, Matthew,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Time to Ours<\/u>\u00a0(Totowa NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)(American Intellectual Culture Series).<\/p>\n

Mancini, Matthew,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s Post-Civil War Reputation,<\/em>\u00a043 (1)\u00a0Society<\/u>\u00a075-81 (November\/December 2005).<\/p>\n

Mann, Golo,\u00a0Tocqueville und das Amerika von heute,<\/em>\u00a05\u00a0Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Amerikastudien<\/u>\u00a011-25 (1960).<\/p>\n

Marshall, Lynn L., and Seymour Drescher,\u00a0American Historians and Tocqueville\u2019s\u00a0Democracy<\/u><\/em>, 55(3)\u00a0The Journal of American History<\/u>\u00a0512-532 (Dec. 1968).<\/p>\n

M\u00e9lonio, Fran\u00e7oise,\u00a0Editions recentes de Tocqueville<\/em>, 13(2)\u00a0Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0185-188 (1992).<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0Democracy in America<\/em><\/u>, 72\u00a0Edinburgh Review<\/u>\u00a01-48 (October 1840).<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0De Tocqueville on Democracy in America,<\/em>\u00a02\u00a0London Review<\/u>\u00a085-129 (October 1835).<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0Dissertations and discussions, political, philosophical, and historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster reviews<\/u>\u00a0(2d ed.; London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1867). Includes\u00a0M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America<\/em>\u00a0in volume 2.<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0Dissertations and discussions political, philosophical, and historical<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Henry Holt, 1874-1882). Five volumes. “Reprinted mainly from the Edinburgh and Westminster reviews.” Essay on Tocqueville appears in volume two.<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0Essais sur Tocqueville et la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 americaine<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: J. Vrin, 1994)(Bibliotheque des textes philosophiques).<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0The philosophy of John Stuart Mill: ethical, political, and religious<\/u>\u00a0(Marshall Cohen ed.; NY: Modern Library, 1961)(The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books; 322)> Includes\u00a0M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mill, John Stuart,\u00a0Sobre la libertad y comentarios a Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1991)(Coleccion Austral. Serie: Pensamiento A183). Translation of\u00a0On Liberty<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Ohana, David, From Rousseau To Tocqueville: Janus Face of Modernity, <\/em>in The Intellectual Origins of Modernity 29 (Routledge, 2019) (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought).<\/p>\n

Ostrom, Vincent,\u00a0Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies<\/em>, 2(3)\u00a0Journal of Theoretical Politics<\/u>\u00a0243-262 (1990).<\/p>\n

Pease, Donald E.,\u00a0After the Tocqueville Revival; Or, the Return of the Political,\u00a0<\/em>26(3)\u00a0Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture<\/u>\u00a087-114 (Fall 1999).<\/p>\n

Pitney, John J., Jr.,\u00a0The Tocqueville fraud<\/em>, 1(9)\u00a0Weekly Standard<\/u>\u00a044-45 (November 13, 1995).<\/p>\n

Pozzi, Regina,\u00a0\u00c9lites e processi di modernizzazione: Guizot e Tocqueville dinanzi alla storia inglese,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Il pensiero gerarchico in Europa. XVIII-XIX secolo<\/u>, 251-267 (2002).
\nPozzi, Regina,\u00a0Guizot et Tocqueville face \u00e0 l’histoire anglaise<\/em>, 22(2)\u00a0The Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0155-172 (2001).<\/p>\n

Przychodzen, Janusz,\u00a0Tocqueville mis en sc\u00e8ne par Vadeboncoeur, ou…de l’Amerique (non) democratique<\/em>, 29(2)\u00a0\u00c9tudes Litt\u00e9raires<\/u>\u00a049 (Autumn 1996).<\/p>\n

Reinhardt, Mark,\u00a0The art of being free: taking liberties with Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt<\/u>\u00a0(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997)(Contestations).<\/p>\n

Res Publica,\u00a0Relire Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a0No. 40 (January 2005).<\/p>\n

Roebuck, John Arthur,\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>\u00a0(London: Charles Ely, 1835). Commentary on\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u>\u00a0and a review published in the\u00a0London Review<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Roebuck, John Arthur,\u00a0[Commentary]<\/em>, in\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u>\u00a0(London: Charles Ely, 1835).<\/p>\n

Salomon, Albert,\u00a0Tocqueville, Moralist and Sociologist,<\/em>\u00a02\u00a0Social Research<\/u>\u00a0405-427 (1953).<\/p>\n

Saucier Guay, Mathieu,\u00a0Marcel Gauchet critique d’Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(M. A. Thesis, University of Ottawa, 2010).<\/p>\n

Sidgwick, Henry,\u00a0Miscellaneous essays and addresses<\/u>\u00a0(London and NY: Macmillan, 1904). Includes\u00a0Supplement: Alexis de Tocqueville<\/em>, an essay first published in\u00a0Macmillan Magazine<\/u>, November 1861.<\/p>\n

Spears, Monroe K.,\u00a0Tocqueville in 1989,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a042(3)\u00a0Hudson Review<\/u>\u00a0369-381 (Autumn 1989).<\/p>\n

Splaine, John,\u00a0Tocqueville\u2019s Journey on C-SPAN,<\/em>\u00a032(2)\u00a0PS:Political Science and Politics<\/u>\u00a0197-202 (June 1999).<\/p>\n

Strout, Cushing,\u00a0A Note on Degler, Riesman and Tocqueville,\u00a0<\/em>16 American Quarterly 100-102 (Spring 1964).<\/p>\n

Stackelberg, J\u00fcrgen von,\u00a0Bemerkungen zur Sek\u00fcnd\u00e4rliteratur \u00fcber Alexis de Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a06\u00a0Romantisches Jahrbuch<\/u>\u00a01953\/1954.<\/p>\n

Tillery, Alvin B., Jr., Reading Tocqueville Behind the Veil: African American Receptions of\u00a0Democracy in America,\u00a0<\/em>1835-1900, 7 American Political Thought 1-25 (Winter 2018).<\/p>\n

Varouxakis, Georgios,\u00a0Guizot’s Historical Works and J. S. Mill’s Reception of Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a020\u00a0History of Political Thought<\/u>\u00a0292-312 (1999).<\/p>\n

Viotti, Paul R., Jr.,\u00a0Who Cares About Inequality? Liberalism and Distributive Justice in America<\/u>\u00a0(University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008).<\/p>\n

Walters, Ronald G.,\u00a0Reforming Tocqueville<\/em>, 9\u00a0Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0283-295 (1987\/1988).<\/p>\n

Whitfield, Stephen J.,\u00a0A century and a half of French views of the United States<\/em>, 56(3)\u00a0Historian<\/u>\u00a0531-542 (Spring 1994).<\/p>\n

Wiener, Jon,\u00a0Professors, politics, and pop<\/u>\u00a0(London and NY: Verso, 1991)(The Haymarket series). Includes\u00a0Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Nixon: Watergate in Theory<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wills, Garry,\u00a0Did Tocqueville “Get” America?<\/em> The New York Review of Books, April 29, 2004.<\/p>\n

Zachman, John R.,\u00a0Autonomy, Authority, and Liberty: The Politics of John Stuart Mill<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Duke University, 2006).\u00a0Includes discussion of Mill’s writings on Tocqueville.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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