| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. By Matthew Mancini. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xviii, 255 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-7425-2343-8. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 0-7425-2344-6.)

The focal point of this book is Matthew Mancini's rejection of the common assertion that the thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville disappeared as a topic of American intellectual discourse in the late nineteenth century and reappeared in the mid-twentieth century as a foundational element of the consensus school of American history. Mancini shows that Tocqueville never disappeared from American intellectual life and so could not have been rediscovered. Though hardly original, this is not a trivial point. In striving to understand Tocqueville's role among American intellectuals, it is important to analyze his abiding presence: the treatment of Tocqueville as an "old reliable" supporter of American democracy ever since the publication of Democracy in America and despite the many concerns regarding American social life expressed therein. Moreover, such a theme could provide the structure for recovering a significant amount of Tocqueville-influenced literature from critical periods in American intellectual history—including the post–Civil War era, during which America's self-conception was being recast in light of political, economic, and cultural centralization.

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