The Democracy reader: Classic and modern speeches, essays, poems, declarations, and documents on freedom and human rights worldwide - Softcover

1992, hardcover edition, Harpercollins, NY. 331 pages. Nicely printed, b&w photos throughout. Here are over 100 entries, tracing the democratic ideals and democratic societies throughout the world. "Each piece is set in historical context by a short introduction, and many are illustrated with photographs or artwork of the period. Here are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, Henry Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Boris Pasternak, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Octavio Paz, John Stuart Mill, George Orwell, John Locke, Plato, Aristotle, and many others, describing human rights and basic freedoms. Very nicely done.