What's wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship /
In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6 |
| Summary: | In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940901 0520940903 0520236602 9780520236608 1598750011 9781598750010 141754533X 9781417545339 1282360310 9781282360310 9786612360312 6612360313 |