{"title":"Olivier Zunz","description":"\u003cp\u003eOlivier Zunz é professor emérito de História na Universidade da Virgínia. Foi professor visitante no Collège de France e na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, entre outros. Recebeu fellowships e bolsas de pesquisa de instituições como Ford Foundation, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities e National Science Foundation. É um dos maiores estudiosos de Alexis de Tocqueville, e organizou obras sobre o autor como \u003cem\u003eThe Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, com Alan Kahan; \u003cem\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels\u003c\/em\u003e; e\u003cem\u003e Recollections (1850-1851)\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"o-homem-que-compreendeu-a-democracia","title":"The man who understood democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHow did an aristocrat become one of democracy's greatest defenders? In \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Understood Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e , we learn the story of Alexis de Tocqueville and the path that led him to become one of the great theorists of American democracy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOf noble origin and born at the end of the turbulent Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville had many of his family members imprisoned and even killed by guillotine in the period leading up to the establishment of the First French Republic in 1794. And even witnessing the slaughter that led to the change of regime, he was an important voice in defense of the democratic system to the detriment of the aristocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 1831, at the age of 25, Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to the United States and observed the tangible reality of a functioning democracy. Impacted by the events of his time, he became a passionate student and active participant in liberal politics, dedicating his life and career as a writer and politician to ending despotism in France and leading the country into a new democratic era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOlivier Zunz, one of the greatest experts on Tocqueville, examines this great thinker's attempts to apply the lessons of his classic work \u003cem\u003e, Democracy in America\u003c\/em\u003e , to French politics, and shows how the United States, and not just France, occupied a central place in Tocqueville's thinking and actions throughout his career. Late in his life, with his home country under the yoke of an authoritarian regime and the United States divided by slavery, Tocqueville feared that the democratic experiment was about to fail. However, his passion for democracy never lost its vigor. He died two years after the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, just in time to witness a profound transformation of American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Understood Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive and groundbreaking biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest defenders. By researching Tocqueville's unique blend of philosophy and political action, drawing on French and American sources, Zunz offers a nuanced portrait of the man who fought tirelessly for the only system he believed could deliver both freedom and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159793025276,"sku":"9786555876819","price":179.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/cf4903aac5e6978dc052d5e9547ab1b5_9d9e56f0-4ef9-4499-a52d-96a2734ac01c.jpg?v=1778325325"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/olivier-zunz.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}