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About John Dunn
See more books from this AuthorDunn (Political Theory/King’s College, Cambridge) comes at democracy from all angles, exploring its changing meaning and impact from its introduction in Athens by the nobleman Kleisthenes in 507 b.c.
| Read Full Review of Democracy: A History• David Runciman is the author of Political Hypocrisy: the Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond (Princeton) Three to read: ruling passions through the ages Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy by John Dunn (Atlantic) This acclaimed history, published in 2005, charts democracy...
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| Read Full Review of Democracy: A HistoryIt had to reconcile itself to embracing, on pain of inanition, chaos or barbarism, not America's distinctive culture and self-assurance or its widely envied levels of material comfort, but its hallowed form of government, and above all, its cherished and endlessly honed diagnosis of the special m...
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