PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Alan Ryan was warden of New College, Oxford University, and professor of political theory. The author of On Politics, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, he currently teaches politics at Princeton University.
Ryan's excellent introduction makes Tocqueville's observations and anxieties vitally relevant for 21st-century readers. -- Kirkus Reviews
