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Democracy

by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Democracy is a 1984 novel by the American author Joan Didion. Set in Hawaii and Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, the book tells the story of Inez Victor, wife of U.S. Senator and one-time presidential hopeful Harry Victor, and her enduring romance with Jack Lovett, a CIA agent/war profiteer whom Inez first met as a teenager living in Hawaii.

First published: 1889 504 pages
Category
Literature
Priority
Recommended
Author works
3
Language
eng
Subjects
Aims and objectivesDemocracyPolitical leadershipInfluenceCitizenshipCivicsStudy and teachingEducationHistoryInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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