Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century.

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.