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Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy
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April 2008
On Sale: March 24, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 158648513X
EAN: 9781586485139
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Non-Fiction Political
Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity. In a vigorous, insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our times.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - July 22, 2008
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