Founding Fathers V. the People: Paradoxes of American Democracy

by Anthony King and Anthony King

As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the world's greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on which this democracy was established. In the venerable tradition of keen foreign observers of American politics, Anthony King exposes the political paradoxes in our system that we may well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674045734
• ISBN13: 9780674045736
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"