The Problem of Democracy
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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
By Andrew Burstein, Nancy IsenbergThe Warren-Adams friendship grew strong over the trying decade of their colony's confrontation with London.” These were already, as Thomas Paine was to record, the times that tried men's souls. In mid-April 1775, Dr. Warren dispatched ...
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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
By Andrew Burstein, Nancy IsenbergEngland in the spring of 1828, President Adams named as his successor the New Yorker Peter Porter, a War of 1812 general and recipient of a commendation"for gallantry"from Congress. As Porter took up Adams's cause in the New York press, ...
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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
By Andrew Burstein, Nancy IsenbergThe English political theorist determined that the state's health depended on the education of its youth. ... wandering young man was obliged to report on all he saw of other countries' governments, and anything else new or curious.
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The Problem of Democracy
By Alain de Benoist"De Benoist proposes that effective democracy would mean a return to an understanding of citizenship as being tied to one's belonging to a specific political community based on shared values and common historical ties, while doing away with ...
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The Problem of Democracy
By Alain de BenoistThe first of de Benoist's book-length political works to appear in English shows that the problem with democracy is the current understanding of the term, which reduces people to little more than cogs in a machine over which they have no ...
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
By Shadi HamidAnd is it possible for it to change? In The Problem of Democracy, Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism" as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East and beyond.
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The Problem of Democracy
By Alain de BenoistThe Problem of Democracy