Alexis de Tocqueville
-...a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime.- --The New Yorker -If de
Tocqueville were a contemporary writer we could say simply that he
has done it again. This modest-sized book on his journeys in
England and Ireland, although naturally lacking the structure of
the works on Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the French
Revolution is one with them in quality. Generalities only hint at
the rich and rewarding reading in this volume. The particulars not
only support the thesis, they are often in themselves based on such
profound observation as to open for the contemporary reader many
fresh roads of thought about problems most subtly besieging the
strongholds of liberty today.- --Christian Science Monitor.
..".a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime." --The New Yorker "If de
Tocqueville were a contemporary writer we could say simply that he
has done it again. This modest-sized book on his journeys in
England and Ireland, although naturally lacking the structure of
the works on Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the French
Revolution is one with them in quality. Generalities only hint at
the rich and rewarding reading in this volume. The particulars not
only support the thesis, they are often in themselves based on such
profound observation as to open for the contemporary reader many
fresh roads of thought about problems most subtly besieging the
strongholds of liberty today." --Christian Science Monitor.
..".a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime." --The New Yorker "If de
Tocqueville were a contemporary writer we could say simply that he
has done it again. This modest-sized book on his journeys in
England and Ireland, although naturally lacking the structure of
the works on Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the French
Revolution is one with them in quality. Generalities only hint at
the rich and rewarding reading in this volume. The particulars not
only support the thesis, they are often in themselves based on such
profound observation as to open for the contemporary reader many
fresh roads of thought about problems most subtly besieging the
strongholds of liberty today." --Christian Science Monitor.
..".a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime." --The New Yorker
."..a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime." --The New Yorker
."..a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and
prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious
talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and
describe more of the essence of English character, society and
politics--as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than
most others have in a lifetime."--The New Yorker
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