André Jardin
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André Jardin (1912 – 1996) was a French biographer and historian, best known for his studies of Alexis de Tocqueville and 19th century French history. His 1984 biography of Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville: 1805-1859 —translated into English as Tocqueville: A Biography in 1988 by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway— was acclaimed as the definitive account of the life and career of the author of Democracy in America. Source: [André Jardin]( on Wikipedia.
Books
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Histoire du libéralisme politique
This book, which fills a gap in historiography since there was no in-depth work on the genesis of liberal France, should give full weight to the current debates.