Democracy and despotism live closer together than you'd expect-in this briskly astute book, a leading political thinker reveals why that should alarm us all.
John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, is renowned globally for his creative thinking about politics, history, media and democracy. His books include The Shortest History of Democracy; The Life and Death of Democracy; the bestselling Tom Paine: A Political Life; and the acclaimed biography Václav Havel.
