Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville & the Modern Prospect - Paperback

by Paul Anthony Rahe (Author)

An insightful reading of early democratic philosophers and how America and other modern democracies have veered too far from their fundamental roots

In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe

Author Biography

Paul A. Rahe is professor of history and political science at Hillsdale College and author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution and Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic.