James Miller is a professor of politics and liberal studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of the critically acclaimed EXAMINED LIVES: From Socrates to Nietzsche; FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947–1977; and DEMOCRACY IS IN THE STREETS: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago.

Books by James Miller

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

by James Miller - History, Nonfiction, Political Science

In CAN DEMOCRACY WORK?, James Miller traces the lively, surprising saga of democratic aspirations, beginning with self-rule in ancient Athens and proceeding through bloody uprisings and mob rule in Europe and the evolution of Jeffersonian democracy.