Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville & the Modern Prospect by Paul Anthony Rahe

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville & the Modern Prospect

Paul Anthony Rahe

374 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
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An insightful reading of early democratic philosophers and how America and other modern democracies have veered too far from their fundamental roots In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy...

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