Olivier Zunz
Author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
About the Author
Olivier Zunz is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia
Image credit: Courtesy of the author.
Works by Olivier Zunz
The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 (1980) 27 copies
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels (2010) 13 copies
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- Other names
- Zunz, Olivier J.
- Birthdate
- 1947
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Education
- Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (Doctorat d’État ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1982)
- Occupations
- professor
historian - Organizations
- University of Virginia
- Awards and honors
- Officier, Ordre National du Mérite (2011)
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in… by Olivier Zunz
This is a book for Tocqueville fans only. It contains hundreds of Tocqueville's and Beaumont's letters from their American trip and from Tocqueville's diaries (as well as some of Tocqueville's letters pertaining to the publication of Democracy in America). If you like that sort of thing, you will love this book. His letters and diaries really help to illuminate how his thinking developed. At the very least, they are a great picture of American politics and society in the 1830's.
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- Works
- 12
- Members
- 289
- Popularity
- #80,898
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 26
- Languages
- 2