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In a hypercompetitive world obsessed with rankings superwealth and greatness how can we live up to democratic ideals of equality

Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about these questions from different angles in different countries from postwar Japan where democracy was imposed on a defeated country to postcommunist Poland with sudden gaps of wealth and security and the US and South Africa with their legacies of slavery and racism

Adventures in Democracy draws on her experiences and the deep history of democracies in ancient Rome and Athens the American and French revolutions and Renaissance Florence to offer an unflinching portrait of modern democracy To salvage democratic institutions and ideals Benner argues we need to pay more attention to inequalities and struggles for power among citizens Probing myths of heroic triumph over tyranny and inexorable progress towards equality she reveals the vulnerabilities of people power inviting us to consider why democracy is worth fighting for and the role each citizen must play

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