
Can Democracy Work?
A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
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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 to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the 20th century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves - even as they manifestly failed to realize them.
Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished - and vexed - ideal.
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne
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The American Revolution
- A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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The American Revolution signalled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people. In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.
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The foremost scholar on the subject
- De Robert en 08-20-05
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Idea of America
- Reflections on the Birth of the United States
- De: Gordon S Wood
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history
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Sophisticated analyses
- De Roger en 01-25-12
De: Gordon S Wood
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Liberal Fascism
- The Secret History of the American Left
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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"Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
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Great book
- De Mark en 05-10-08
De: Jonah Goldberg
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The American Political Tradition
- And the Men Who Made it
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics", Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
De: Richard Hofstadter, y otros
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The Coming of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
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There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time.
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Compelling and depressing
- De Tad Davis en 06-30-10
De: Richard J. Evans
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Free Speech
- A History from Socrates to Social Media
- De: Jacob Mchangama
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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Hailed as the “first freedom”, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea.
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Great review of free speech and history
- De Anonymous User en 02-22-22
De: Jacob Mchangama
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Churchill's Trial
- Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
- De: Dr. Larry Arnn
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment.
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A Masterpiece of Political Philosophy
- De Jean en 01-25-16
De: Dr. Larry Arnn
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine - only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history.
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More like a history of Languages spoke in Russia.
- De kucherv en 10-24-17
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Washington's Farewell
- The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
- De: John Avlon
- Narrado por: John Avlon
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared could destroy our democracy: hyper-partisanship, excessive debt, and foreign wars. Once celebrated as civic scripture, more widely reprinted than the Declaration of Independence, the Farewell Address is now almost forgotten. Its message remains starkly relevant. In Washington's Farewell, John Avlon offers a stunning portrait of our first president and his battle to save America from self-destruction.
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Very well written and performed
- De Michael Reading en 03-02-17
De: John Avlon
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Sean Wilentz - foreward
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence - and derail - the larger agendas of a political party.
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Written in the 50s and 60s...
- De Kindle Customer en 11-06-19
De: Richard Hofstadter, y otros
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Temptations of Power
- Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
- De: Shadi Hamid
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy - the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power.
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A new perspective
- De Dave114 en 08-06-18
De: Shadi Hamid
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Can Democracy Work?
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- Alex
- 12-07-18
Challenging, Dense, Enlightening, and Hopeful
I enjoyed this book tremendously. Miller’s brief sketch of both successful and abortive democratic movements across time and culture provides much needed historical context for our current moment. As more and more of the world becomes avowedly democratic, despite espousing radically different values and goals, this timeless work reminds us all that democracy is not a way of life in and of itself, but merely a method of constructing one.
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