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The Independent Review
Volume 12 Number 2
Fall 2007


Unprophetic Tocqueville: How Democracy in America Got the Modern World Completely Wrong
By Daniel Choi

Alexis de Tocqueville is hailed almost universally as the supreme oracle of the modern age, but on nearly every essential point the nineteenth-century French writer has been proven wrong. While it’s easy to explain why Tocqueville was widely off target, it’s hard to understand why ideologically diverse contemporary commentators have been led astray.




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