Chapter 1: Reception and Renown
Chapter 2: At Old Mrs. Otis's
Chapter 3: The American Old Regime
Chapter 4: The Myth of Oblivion
Chapter 5: Enduring Sage
Chapter 6: A Cottage Industry
Chapter 7: Lumpers and Splitters
Matthew Mancini is professor and chair of the American Studies department at Saint Louis University. His previous books include One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928 and Alexis de Tocqueville.
Though several scholars have referred to Tocqueville's influence,
few have attempted composing a thoughtful treatise that explores
the how and why of his impact. Not only has Mancini made this
pursuit his own, this resulting work is nothing short of essential.
. . . Clearly, the historian has spent many years in serious
contemplation of his subject, and this intellectually engrossing
work benefits from his unambiguous, self-assured interpretation. .
. . Essential.
*CHOICE*
Mancini's book is a major contribution to the field of Tocqueville
scholarship. It is a very bold, ambitious undertaking. Mancini
tackles almost all of the major American secondary works, editions
and translations relating to Tocqueville since the 1830s.The focus
of his work is to tell the story of Tocqueville's reception and
reputation in the United States, to survey most of the major
writers and scholars who have studied and interpreted Tocqueville's
writings and ideas, and to recreate the intellectual links among
those Americans who have written about, edited, and translated
Tocqueville. His book is not only a significant work of Tocqueville
scholarship, but also a fascinating study of American intellectual
history, examined through the particular lens of the American
reception of Tocqueville. Mancini's work is a project that has been
waiting to be done; now he has done it and done it well.
*James T. Schleifer, author of The Making of Tocqueville's
Democracy in America*
Matthew Mancini's Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals:
From His Times to Ours is a thoughtful and well researched analysis
of the meaning of de Tocqueville to generations of American
thinkers and an important corrective to prior interpretations of
this complex story.
*Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University*
The strengths of this book are considerable, not least the
demonstration that Tocqueville has never truly disappeared from the
American landscape. Especially noteworthy are Mancini's excavations
of the Johns Hopkins connection and of Tocqueville's direct and
indirect appropriation by American Catholics and Progressives. . .
. [Mancini's] book represents a real scholarly contribution that
opens up fascinating interpretive possibilities.
*Political Studies Review*
Mancini has produced an invaluable study of Tocqueville's American
reception. His criticism of other Tocqueville scholars is pointed,
and his exhaustive research is impressive. . . . A major
contribution to both Tocqueville studies and American intellectual
history.
*Journal of Southern History*
Professor Mancini has done just what he set out to do, that is show
how Tocqueville has been received, interpreted, and re-interpreted
over the last century and a half in the United States. A notable
contribution to Tocqueville scholarship.
*Roger Boesche*
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