Notes on Democracy (Mencken - Warbler ed.)

Author: H. L. Mencken

ISBN: 9781959891833

Binding: paperback

Section: Political-Science

Notes on Democracy by enormously influential journalist and cultural critic H. L. Mencken is an incisive and astonishingly timely critique of democracy. Mencken is not opposed to democracy but in his powerful, unabashed polemic, he calls out its inherent and unavoidable fragility. His bracing realism reminds us that naive faith in the inevitable triumph of democracy over all other forms of government is a dangerous delusion, as he warns that democracy will not be saved by more democracy.