Why Read Tocqueville?

What can a nineteenth-century Frenchman teach us about modern America? Journalist and scholar James Poulos, author of "The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves" (2017) translates Tocqueville’s advice in "Democracy in America" for a contemporary audience, illuminating us on how Tocqueville views the relationship friendship between friendship and freedom in today's society.

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