01785cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000460012624500230017226400510019530000470024633600260029333700260031933800360034550000850038150000310046650801780049752005800067553400590125565300140131485600570132885600430138599900190142873150UtSlPG20260610134707.0mcr n260607r20241926utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a26019033  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aJC1 aMencken, H. L.q(Henry Louis),d1880-195610aNotes on democracy 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2024  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Democracy  aRelease date is 2024-03-12  aEmmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Notes on Democracy" by H. L. Mencken is a political critique published in 1926. The book dissects democracy's failures, dividing political leaders into two types: demagogues who deceive idiots with lies, and demaslaves who pretend to believe those same idiots. Mencken portrays politicians as men who've traded honor for power. This fierce polemic attacks the democratic tradition through ridicule, though critics note Mencken's contrast between sordid reality and his imagined ideal society reveals the work's central weakness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926  aDemocracy4 uhttps://archive.org/details/notesondemocracy0000menc40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73150  c113875d113875