Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

by James Miller

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A new history of the world's most embattled idea

Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374137641

ISBN13:9780374137649

Release Date:September 2018

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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