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Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

By James Miller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Unabridged — 9 hours, 37 minutes
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Unabridged — 9 hours, 37 minutes
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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 ...