"The Recollections place Tocqueville in a new light. Criticism, when he can express himself freely, passes into satire. In virtue, further, of his supreme analytical power, he becomes more than a humorist; he turns into an historic painter of unrivalled brilliancy and exhibits himself as the satirist of every man, friend or foe, who for a moment plays his part in the shifting scenes of the revolutionary drama."

- A.V. Dicey

"Spanning the short epoch between the generation of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Napoleon and that of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, de Tocqueville's narrative reveals our world's great antecedent--that shadowy and mysterious nether realm on the threshold of modernity."

--George Grant, World

"The Recollections place Tocqueville in a new light. Criticism, when he can express himself freely, passes into satire. In virtue, further, of his supreme analytical power, he becomes more than a humorist; he turns into an historic painter of unrivalled brilliancy and exhibits himself as the satirist of every man, friend or foe, who for a moment plays his part in the shifting scenes of the revolutionary drama."

- A.V. Dicey

"Spanning the short epoch between the generation of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Napoleon and that of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, de Tocqueville's narrative reveals our world's great antecedent--that shadowy and mysterious nether realm on the threshold of modernity."

--George Grant, World

-The Recollections place Tocqueville in a new light. Criticism, when he can express himself freely, passes into satire. In virtue, further, of his supreme analytical power, he becomes more than a humorist; he turns into an historic painter of unrivalled brilliancy and exhibits himself as the satirist of every man, friend or foe, who for a moment plays his part in the shifting scenes of the revolutionary drama.-

- A.V. Dicey

-Spanning the short epoch between the generation of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Napoleon and that of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, de Tocqueville's narrative reveals our world's great antecedent--that shadowy and mysterious nether realm on the threshold of modernity.-

--George Grant, World