Chapter 12: Happy Birthday

[inspectorfield]

        I feel it would be a betrayal of my James Madison education not to wish Mr. Alexis de Tocqueville a very happy 200th birthday today.  That's right: on this day 200 years ago, the man who brought us Democracy in America vols. 1 & 2 was born, a man who would shape the education of countless political theory students and remind us of the

Comments

[reasondefies]

You should bake him a cake. I bet he'd like that.

[inspectorfield]

I would have, but I was afraid it'd get stale before I could get it to his gravesite. That, and I didn't know what type of cake he likes.