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“The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville” by Olivier Zunz; Princeton University Press (456 pages, $35)
In "The Man Who Understood Democracy," Olivier Zunz, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Virginia and editor, among other books, of "The Tocqueville Reader," provides an informative biography of De Tocqueville, whose understanding of liberty and equality has remained immensely influential for almost 200 years.
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