Product Description: A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten...read more

Product Description: Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France...read more

Thoroughly revised and updated, this single volume reference traces American history from precolonial times to the present day, and discusses important issues, movements, and and personalities that helped shape the nation into a global superpower. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. To understand Kennedy's aims and achievements in the White House, it looks at Kennedy the man and outlines his background and early career and the influences upon him...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: inside into american presidents and their families

Traces American history from precolonial times to the Vietnam War, and discusses important issues, movements, and leaders