Democracy in Our America

“Through this subtle and compellingly Tocquevillian account of governing small-town America, Kahn shows us the challenge in rebuilding a democracy in America generally. He forces us to see what we like to avoid. And in so doing, he helps us understand something critical about the challenges that we face.”—Lawrence Lessig, author of America, Compromised

“Through an intimate account of community life in one New England town—his town—Paul Kahn, one of our finest political thinkers, has produced a profound mediation on the practices and bonds on which democratic self-government depends.”—Benjamin L. Berger, author of Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism

“Paul Kahn is one of America’s most interesting thinkers and Democracy in Our America is just the latest proof of that. It offers a compelling account of political life in one town and the unfolding national political life that shapes and transforms it. This book provides nuanced treatment of contemporary concerns filtered through the prism of a wise person and a gifted writer.”—Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College

Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He lives in Killingworth, CT.

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