W.W. Norton and Company: New York (2021), 390 pages
ISBN 978-0-393-86841
‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’ George Santayana.
At a time that a dark side of history is threatening to repeat (with, as just one example, a recent study (R. Riedl et al. ‘Democratic backsliding, resilience, and resistance’ (World Politics January 2024) documenting democratic backsliding in a record number of even wealthy countries), this book focuses critical attention on the characteristics of previous
Review by Ken Friedman
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