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050 4 _aJC
100 1 _aMencken, H. L.
_q(Henry Louis),
_d1880-1956
245 1 0 _aNotes on democracy
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Democracy
500 _aRelease date is 2024-03-12
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926
653 _aDemocracy
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/notesondemocracy0000menc
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73150
999 _c113875
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