Taming Democracy

Author/Contributor(s):	Yunis, Harvey
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	01/18/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

How does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these three--historian, philosopher, politician respectively--explored the...