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The Dangers of “Aristocracy:” Grund’s Critique of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

February 27, 2017
Armin Mattes

Bringing Aristocracy in America into dialogue with Tocqueville’s Democracy in America can help historians to better understand the nature of the conflict between “aristocracy” and “democracy”—an issue that may be more relevant even in our own time than many had thought. When Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of his Democracy in America in […]

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