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Demagogue Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Michael Signer

This compelling narrative weaves stories about some of history's most fascinating figures, including Adolf Hitler, Senator Joe McCarthy, and General Douglas MacArthur, and explains how humanity's urge for liberty can give rise to dark forces that threaten that very freedom.


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A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr are all clear examples of this dangerous byproduct of democracy. Demagogue takes a long view of the fight to defend democracy from within, from the brutal general Cleon in ancient Athens, the demagogues who plagued the bloody French Revolution, George W. Bush's nave democratic experiment in Iraq, and beyond. This compelling narrative weaves stories about some of history's most fascinating figures, including Adolf Hitler, Senator Joe McCarthy, and General Douglas Macarthur, and explains how humanity's urge for liberty can give rise to dark forces that threaten that very freedom. To find the solution to democracy's demagogue problem, the book delves into the stories of four great thinkers who all personally struggled with democracy--Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt.

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  • Title Demagogue
  • Author Michael Signer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
  • Date 2009-02-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780230606241 / 0230606245
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Political
  • Library of Congress subjects Political culture, Democracy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2008, Page 1298
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/01/2008, Page 40

About the author

Michael Signer is Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for American Progress and Senior National Security Policy Fellow at the think tank Third Way. He was Senator John Edwards' foreign policy advisor on his presidential campaign. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and he has been interviewed by The Washington Post, NPR, and MSNBC, among others. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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