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The Future of Freedom [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
by Fareed Zakaria
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political |
| Market price: ¥ 570.00
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Peter Jennings (MSL quote), USA
<2008-09-23 00:00>
A very thoughtful and intelligent book...for those who would make American policy.
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Bernard Lewis (MSL quote), USA
<2008-09-23 00:00>
At once provocative and illuminating. |
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From Library Journal (MSL quote), USA
<2008-09-23 00:00>
Newsweek International's editor exposes the down side of democracy, i.e., the assumption that what's popular is right.
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Bryce Christensen (MSL quote), USA
<2008-09-23 00:00>
The spread of democracy threatens freedom? So argues journalist Zakaria in a provocative critique of political trends fast democratizing the entire globe. In numerous newly democratic countries, Zakaria sees elections serving not as a guarantee of liberty but rather as a legitimization of tyranny. Liberty, he argues, depends less on the will of the majority than it does on institutional safeguards for the rights of minorities. Lacking such safeguards, rude democracy has swept countries such as Venezuela, Russia, and the Central African Republic toward illiberal authoritarianism. Even in the U.S., Zakaria warns, the slide away from constitutional republicanism toward reflexive populism portends civic malaise. More broadly, Zakaria worries that a democratized American culture that panders to popular taste even in its museums, courtrooms, and churches may be losing the cultural resources necessary to sustain a regime of liberty. Zakaria does express buoyant hopes for a future in which capitalists liberalize international politics-even in China and Iraq-but he also lays out the sobering task of resolving the dilemmas of untrammeled democracy. |
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From a guest reviewer (MSL quote), India
<2008-09-23 00:00>
There are few adjectives that could do justice to the sheer briliiance of this book. It starts by charting a chronological history of the birth and development of democracy and then relates it to our time. It dispels a lot of Myths about democracy explaining very profound realities that we can relate to in everyday living. The narrative is simple and the ease with which he puts it all together - not losing detail and yet holding your attention at all times, makes reading this book an especially fullfilling experience.
Whereas the points beeing made in this book may have been made elsewhere, the sheer "completeness" of this work and the remarkable illustrations to support each argument is unprecendented. For instance the realation between the Per capita Income of a state to its chances of having a successful stint with democracy is fabulous - but then again so is every other argument. As a reader you feel you are taken on a enjoyable ride through a wide ranges of topics - and yet there seems to be an underlying "thread" which keeps it all in context the author never losses.
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