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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, detail of an oil painting by T. Chassériau; in the Versailles Museum.
The first part of Alexis de Tocquevilleâs seminal work, Democracy in America, was published in 1835.1
This publication, which analyzed the nature of democracy and the equality of conditions in the United States, earned him immediate acclaim as a political scientist. He later completed the final portion of the work in 1840.1