Social Science Classics Series Recollections: French Revolution of 1848, (Paperback)

The Recollections place Tocqueville in a new light. Criticism, when he can express himself freely, passes into satire. In virtue, further, of his supreme analytical power, he becomes more than a humorist; he turns into an historic painter of unrivalled brilliancy and exhibits himself as the satirist of every man, friend or foe, who for a moment plays his part in the shifting scenes of the revolutionary drama." - A.V. Dicey "Spanning the short epoch between the generation of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Napoleon and that of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, de Tocqueville's narrative reveals our world's great antecedent--that shadowy and mysterious nether realm on the threshold of modernity." --George Grant, World