Indeed if Alexis de Tocqueville is to be believed, early America was surprisingly uninventive.
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De Tocqueville noted that democratic people have always had a weakness for memorialising their leaders.
As in the case of de Tocqueville, it sometimes takes a Frenchman to explain America to itself.
Back in the early 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville noted that American farmers viewed their holdings more like capitalists than peasants.
He wondered if Alexis de Tocqueville had ever envisaged a scene like this.
As depicted by Mr Beckert, gilded-age New York suggests that, in one respect, Alexis de Tocqueville judged too soon.
In the 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville marvelled that in America the opulent did not stand aloof from the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans intertwined individual liberty with vibrant faith.
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"They asked for de Tocqueville for the longest time, " Ms. Hurley reported.
They have finally learned de Tocqueville's lesson: that the best way for aristocrats to survive in a democracy is to disguise themselves as hoi polloi.
It is in part for reasons like these that Alexis de Tocqueville claimed the poorly-off did not want the wealth of the wealthy so much as their pride.
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The 19th century French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville pointed out that there are essentially two grand themes around which political life can be organized in America: equality and liberty.
When libertarian philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville traveled the U.S. in the 1830s, he described the new arrivals to the U.S. as "restless in the midst of abundance, " and as Gartner notes further, Tocqueville observed that Americans were quite nomadic then, much as we are today.
It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists in the 1600s, made secular and practical by Benjamin Franklin, expressed as the "Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, noticed by Alexis de Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and written into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.
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