Ross B. Emmett
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Book Review
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
NOVEMBER 24, 2010 by ROSS B. EMMETT
Paul Rahe argues that American democracy is well down the road to the soft despotism that Tocqueville feared. But the outcome is not inevitable.



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