Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath by Tocqueville, Alexis De

Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath

Alexis de Tocqueville's Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France....
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Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath by Tocqueville, Alexis De

Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath

$149.13

Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath

$149.13
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Alexis de Tocqueville's Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napol on Bonaparte's 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it was initially conceived simply as an exercise in candid personal reflection. In Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath, renowned historian Olivier Zunz and award-winning translator Arthur Goldhammer offer an entirely new translation of Tocqueville's compelling book.

The book has an interesting publishing history. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville finally approved its publication, although only after those portrayed in the work--most, unflatteringly--had died. After Tocqueville's death, his grandnephew published a redacted version, but it was not until 1942 that French editors restored the potentially offensive passages.

Goldhammer's is the first English translation to do justice to Tocqueville's original uncensored masterpiece of analytical description, stylistic subtlety, vivid social panorama, and incisive critique of political blundering and cowardice. Zunz's introduction--and his addition of several of Tocqueville's ancillary speeches, occasional texts, and letters--round out a unique volume that significantly enhances our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville's role in it. In this new edition, Zunz highlights the persistent influence of the United States on the life and work of a man who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the New French Republic.



Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 12/14/2016
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780813939018


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2016

About the Author

Olivier Zunz, Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of Philanthropy in America: A History and editor of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels (Virginia), among other books. Arthur Goldhammer, an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a member of the editorial board of French Politics, Culture, and Society, has translated more than one hundred and twenty-five works from the French, including Tocqueville's Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution.


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