Can Democracy Work?

“Of all the books on democracy in recent years [this is] one of the best . . . an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment.” — The Guardian Today, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets , offers a lively, surprising,