Reading The Ancien Régime and the Revolution | Alexandria
Read The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville. Revealing how revolutions strengthen central power rather than weaken it, Tocqueville's masterwork shatters conventional wisdom about social upheaval. His paradoxical insight - that the French Revolution intensified the very state authority it sought to destroy - illuminates our own era's tensions between democracy and government control.