Tocqueville's Road Map

Roger Boesche is professor of politics and Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society and author of The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville.

• Chapter 1 Why Could Tocqueville Predict So Well?Chapter 2 The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de TocquevilleChapter 3 Tocqueville: The Tension Between Commerce and CitizenshipChapter 4 Why Did Tocqueville Think a Successful Revolution Was Impossible?Chapter 5 The Dark Side of Tocqueville: On War and EmpireChapter 6 Hedonism and Nihilism: The Predictions of Tocqueville and NietzscheChapter 7 The Prison: Tocqueville's Model of DespotismChapter 8 Tocqueville and Arendt on the Novelty of Modern TyrannyChapter 9 Le Commerce: A Newspaper Expressing Tocqueville's Unusual Liberalism

The outcome of a three-decade intellectual dialogue with Tocqueville, Roger Boesche's new book offers a penetrating and engaging analysis of various aspects of the work and personality of Tocqueville. A pleasure to read, Tocqueville's Road Map offers an excellent opportunity to renew our own dialogue with the ideas of the Frenchman who has become the unsurpassable horizon of our times.