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Notes on Democracy

By H L Menchen
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By H L Menchen
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Notes on Democracy by H. L. Mencken is a sharp, irreverent, and fearless dissection of democratic ideals from one of America's most provocative minds. Written in the 1920s-yet stunningly relevant today-Mencken strips the romanticism from democracy and exposes its contradictions, hypocrisies, and absurdities with biting wit and intellectual firepower.

In his trademark sardonic style, Mencken questions whether the common people, whom democracy is supposed to empower, are truly capable of gover...