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Review: Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It was full of historical detail and seemed very well-researched, even if the writing was a little hard to get through at times. I did wonder, and none of the other reviewers have mentioned this, so maybe I'm way off target, if the book's treatment of the abuse of democracy towards the end was supposed to be a reflection on the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Especially when you consider that the book was written in 1956...The comparison, which works even if it is not intentional, really struck me at the very end, where Sokrates is referred to as "anti-democratic" and "un-Athenian" for promoting independant thought and free speech.
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