James Thomas Schleifer is an American historian, and emeritus Dean of the Mother Irene Gill Memorial Library, and professor at the College of New Rochelle.
He graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1972. He also lectures at Yale University.
1981 Merle Curti Award"Tocqueville: Ecrits et discours politiques". LA REVUE TOCQUEVILLE / THE TOCQUEVILLE REVIEW, VOL. XIII No. 2, 1992 Eduardo Nolla, ed. (1996). "How Many Democracies?". Liberty, Equality, Democracy. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5778-9. The making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America. University of North Carolina Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-8078-1372-0. Cheryl B. Welch, ed. (2006). "Tocqueville's Democracy in America Reconsidered". The Cambridge Tocqueville Companion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84064-4. 