num_pages: 256
description: Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger in the political imagination today? Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in ancient Greece to its triumph in the years since 1945. 'Setting the People Free' is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution.
language: English
title: Setting the People Free : The Story of Democracy
titlecomplete: Setting the People Free : The Story of Democracy
genres: Historical, History, Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 146
publisher: Atlantic Books