Democracy: An American Novel by Henry Adams, written in the years after the Civil War, explores the implacable connection between corruption and participatory government.
Adams is, not surprisingly, not sanguine about the prospects of political idealism and selflessness in our form of government. Moneyed interests, narrow thinking, and self-interest always “trump” the greater good.
Adams is, not surprisingly, not sanguine about the prospects of political idealism and selflessness in our form of government. Moneyed interests, narrow thinking, and self-interest always “trump” the greater good.
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