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The remarkable prescience of Alexis de Tocqueville

His Democracy in America remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the extraordinary uniformity of opinion in the US

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Théodore Chassériau, 1850. [Alamy]
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    Jeremy Jennings

    Harvard University Press, pp. 524, £34

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