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Works Cited in The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane

Description: In lieu of a bibliography, listed here are works cited in Keane's book.

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by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,901 members

303 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Republic of Plato

25,599 members

163 reviews

3.9

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Around the World in Eighty Days

20,287 members

301 reviews

3.8

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by William Shakespeare

17,159 members

168 reviews

4.1

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The Nicomachean Ethics

11,831 members

66 reviews

3.9

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The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

11,706 members

77 reviews

4.1

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11,528 members

97 reviews

4.1

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,956 members

69 reviews

4

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Aristotle's Politics

6,795 members

48 reviews

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6,544 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Thomas Paine

6,053 members

71 reviews

4

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Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

5,349 members

28 reviews

4.2

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by Harry G. Frankfurt

3,480 members

72 reviews

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by Thomas Paine

2,662 members

17 reviews

4

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Theogony / Works and Days

2,374 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

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The End of History and the Last Man

by Francis Fukuyama

2,304 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

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by Niccolò Machiavelli

2,276 members

14 reviews

4

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1,867 members

21 reviews

3.9

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Rosa Parks: My Story

1,625 members

22 reviews

3.9

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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

by Joseph Schumpeter

1,519 members

11 reviews

4

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The Spirit of the Laws

1,514 members

10 reviews

3.8

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Felix Holt, the Radical

by George Eliot

1,179 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

1,087 members

15 reviews

½ 4.4

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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

by Sean Wilentz

1,007 members

7 reviews

3.9

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The Social Contract and Discourses

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

985 members

1 review

3.8

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857 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

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Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

by John Stuart Mill

840 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

by Barrington Moore

750 members

3 reviews

3.8

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The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

662 members

13 reviews

3.2

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Present Concerns

586 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

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The English Constitution

by Walter Bagehot

581 members

8 reviews

3.8

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Democracy: An American Novel

546 members

13 reviews

3.2

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Before philosophy : A study of the primitive myths, beliefs and speculations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, out of which grew the religions and philosophies of the later world

by Henri Frankfort

518 members

4 reviews

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The Watcher and Other Stories

by Italo Calvino

503 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Robert A. Dahl

462 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

by Reinhold Niebuhr

441 members

3 reviews

4.1

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408 members

7 reviews

3.9

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Paradise Regained

373 members

7 reviews

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The Memoirs of George Sherston

by Siegfried Sassoon

367 members

5 reviews

4.1

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The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300

by Romila Thapar

365 members

1 review

4

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Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

by James Madison

343 members

4.1

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A Dictionary of the English Language

by Samuel Johnson

342 members

14 reviews

½ 4.6

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Two Cheers for Democracy

by E. M. Forster

320 members

4 reviews

3.9

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Chief Works of Benedict De Spinoza: A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise

by Benedict de Spinoza

319 members

8 reviews

4

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The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

by George Orwell

309 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

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Considerations on Representative Government

by John Stuart Mill

297 members

1 review

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In His Own Words

by Nelson Mandela

276 members

½ 4.4

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In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth

by Tikva Frymer-Kensky

276 members

2 reviews

3.8

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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

by Alexander Keyssar

273 members

1 review

4.2

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Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

by Sean Wilentz

260 members

1 review

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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation

by Quentin Skinner

236 members

4 reviews

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Tom Paine: A Political Life

231 members

1 review

3.9

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The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

by Samuel P. Huntington

225 members

2 reviews

3.1

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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813

by Simon Schama

214 members

2 reviews

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The Rule of Saint Augustine

by Saint Augustine

214 members

2 reviews

3.2

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Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age

by Christian Meier

194 members

2 reviews

3.9

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by Bernard Cottret

192 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Life and Death of Democracy

180 members

2 reviews

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Everyone but thee and me

176 members

2 reviews

3.1

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Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy (Routledge Classics)

166 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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The Acharnians [Greek text]

by Aristophanes

162 members

2 reviews

3

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Encyclopaedia Britannica 1st edition Facsimile

by Encyclopedia Britannica

160 members

4 reviews

4

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Neither Victims Nor Executioners

by Albert Camus

159 members

3 reviews

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Nehru: The Invention of India

by Shashi Tharoor

159 members

5 reviews

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156 members

3 reviews

3.2

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The Legacy of Greece : a new appraisal

by M. I. Finley

147 members

½ 4.3

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The Theaetetus of Plato

146 members

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A History of Australia, complete and unabridged, Vol. 1-6

by Manning Clark

145 members

3 reviews

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144 members

2 reviews

4.1

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The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920

by Aileen S. Kraditor

141 members

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The Jefferson Image in the American Mind

by Merrill D. Peterson

138 members

4 reviews

4.1

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Democracy Ancient and Modern (Mason Welch Gross Lectureship Series)

by M. I. Finley

137 members

1 review

4

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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

by Richard Drinnon

136 members

2 reviews

4.1

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History of Greece

by George Grote

127 members

13 reviews

5

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Tocqueville: A Biography

by André Jardin

120 members

1 review

3

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Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History

by Nicholas Postgate

116 members

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Isocrates, Volume II. On the Peace. Areopagiticus. Against the Sophists. Antidosis. Panathenaicus

114 members

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The Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life

by Michael Schudson

114 members

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The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism

by Benito Mussolini

111 members

5 reviews

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A Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow

by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev

110 members

2 reviews

3

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Anarchist Communism

by Peter Kropotkin

96 members

1 review

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The Great Republic: A History of the American People {complete}

by Bernard Bailyn

95 members

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Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

95 members

1 review

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Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur

by Thomas C. Reeves

94 members

5 reviews

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The English Revolution, 1640: An Essay

by Christopher Hill

89 members

1 review

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The Phantom Public

by Walter Lippmann

89 members

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The Deipnosophists

86 members

3 reviews

5

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Words of a Rebel

by Peter Kropotkin

81 members

4 reviews

4.1

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On the Perfect State

by Abu Nasr Al-Farabi

78 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

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Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus [Loeb]

77 members

1 review

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Vaclav Havel : A Political Tragedy in Six Acts

72 members

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The Collapse of Communism

by Bernard Gwertzman

72 members

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The Ancient Mesopotamian City

by Marc Van de Mieroop

69 members

1 review

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Guide to Greece

68 members

4

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Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens

64 members

2 reviews

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Six Books of the Commonwealth

63 members

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The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics

62 members

1 review

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The Athenian Citizen

59 members

1 review

4

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Selected Works: Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier, Selections from Essays and Journalism, 1931-1949

by George Orwell

55 members

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The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

by Edmund Burke

54 members

3 reviews

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