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082			_a321.4 Wha
100			_aKetchum, Richard.M. (ed.)
245		0	_aWhat is democracy?
260			_aNew York
260			_bE.P. Dutton
260			_c1964
300			_a192p.
520			_aFifty years ago nearly all Americans believed that the general trend of history was toward the gradual adoption by other peoples of the political principles upon which our own society had been founded. Just as we believed, almost passionately, in the inevitability of progress, so we believed that, elsewhere in the world, progress would be attained by following the road which we had travelled, a road which could lead only to freedom, democratic institutions, and an expanding and prosperous civilization. As millions of migrants flocked to our shores, the better and freer life which unfolded for them gave us a reenforced confidence in our belief that America was more than a Land of Opportunity; it was a society whose economic and political principles had gone far toward solving the age-old problem of reconciling freedom and authority in all spheres of human activity.
650			_aPolitical Science
942			_cB _2ddc