Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution

This translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville''s subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer is uniquely qualified for the task. In his Introduction, Jon Elster draws on his recent work to lay out the structure of To...