C-SPAN Booknotes Books


The following books, all of which quote or mention Alexis de Tocqueville, were featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes program. If the book has a link, then the first chapter can be read on-line.


  1. A Nation of Victims: The Decay of American Character, Charles Sykes

  2. Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy, Porter McKeever

  3. Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won’t Stop, Brian Kelly

  4. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, Peter Brimelow

  5. Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad 1965-1990, Paul Hollander

  6. The Book of Virtues, William Bennett

  7. China Wakes, Nicholas D. Kristoff & Sheryll WuDunn

  8. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama

  9. Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex & Violence on Capitol Hill, Bill Thomas

  10. (The) Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination, Daniel Boorstin

  11. (The) Crosswinds of Freedom, James McGregor Burns

  12. Dead Right, David Frum

  13. Deadline: A Memoir, James Reston

  14. (The) Death of Common Sense, Philip K. Howard

  15. (The) Democratic Imperative, Gregory Fossedal

  16. (The) De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtures to Modern Values, Gertrude Himmelfarb

  17. (The) Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher

  18. Edison: Inventing the Century, Neil Baldwin

  19. Emerson: The Mind on Fire, Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

  20. (The) End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama

  21. Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon, Caspar Weinberger

  22. (The) First Universal Nation, Ben Wattenberg

  23. From the Cold War to a New Era: The U.S. and the Soviet Union 1983-1990, Dan Oberdorfer

  24. Generations: The History of America’s Future 1584-2069, William Strauss & Neil Howe

  25. (The) Great Universal Embrace: Arms Summitry - A Skeptic’s Account, Kenneth Aldelman

  26. Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993, John Podhoretz

  27. John C. Calhoun: A Biography, Irving Bartlett

  28. The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendall Holmes, Liva Baker

  29. Men & Powers: A Political Retrospective, Helmut Schmidt

  30. (The) Mind of South Africa, Allister Sparks

  31. More Like Us: Making America Great Again, James Fallows

  32. Neo Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Irving Kristol

  33. News and the Culture of Lying, Paul Weaver

  34. (The) Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Joel Krieger

  35. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, Joseph Ellis

  36. Paul Revere’s Ride, David Hackett Fischer

  37. Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World, Charles Mee, Jr.

  38. (The) Politics of Rich & Poor, Kevin Phillips

  39. Populism & Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality, Jeffrey Bell

  40. Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events, Murray Kempton

  41. Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy, George Will

  42. (The) Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek

  43. (The) Rocket’s Red Glare: When America Goes to War, Richard Barnet

  44. See How They Run: Electing the President in an Age of Mediocracy, Paul Taylor

  45. Seize the Moment: America’s Challenge in a One-Superpower World, Richard Nixon

  46. Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, Haynes Johnson

  47. Standing Firm, Dan Quayle

  48. Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston, Marshall de Bruhl

  49. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman

  50. (The) Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics & the American Tradition, M. Stanton Evans

  51. Then & Now: How the World has Changes Since WWII, Tad Szulc

  52. To Renew America, Newt Gingrich

  53. Trashing the Planet, Dixie Lee Ray

  54. (The) Tyranny of the Majority, Lani Guinier

  55. Under God: Religion and America Politics, Gary Wills

  56. (The) Way of the Wasp, Richard Brookhiser

  57. Who We Are, Sam Roberts

  58. (The) Work of Nations, Robert Reich



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