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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samons, Loren J., II
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6