Madame de Tocqueville

For good reason, there is a never-ending literature about Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, which Harvey Mansfield in the introduction to his own translation calls “the best book ever written on democracy…

• Michael Barone
• AEI

But there has never been much written on Tocqueville’s wife, born Mary Mottley, a native of England.

Now that gap…

• Madame de Tocqueville…