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"''At a New England town meeting, '' Bryan proclaims, ''[Adolf Hitler] would have at once been recognized as a flaming jackass and subtly ostracized into impotence.'' The serious point buried in his exuberant hyperbole is the lesson at the heart of this immensely readable and valuable book." "[Bryan] writes tellingly and thoroughly about Vermont's 210 annual town meetings over three decades . . . Bryan employs many of the sophisticated methodologies of political science to demonstrate that the New England town meeting is not merely a traditional method by which early Americans governed themselves. It still works well. . . . Obviously, New England can't be transferred to Iraq and Afghanistan, but its lessons are still relevant."--Robert I. Rothberg "Christian Science Monitor " "Simultaneously nostalgic and up-to-the-minute. Bryan's book arrives as interest in local civic capital and 'deliberate democracy' as contrasted with the old-fashioned adversarial style is surging."--Christopher Shea "Boston Globe "" "And now the irrepressible Bryan has made a major contribution to his field (and his country, which is Vermont) with "Real Democracy," his magnum opus, the most searching and sympathetic book ever written about the town meeting democracy of New England. The book is a veritable four-leaf clover of academia: a witty work of political science written from a defiantly rural populist point of view. If the Green Mountains had a face, it would be Frank Bryan. With "Real Democracy," he has given his state, and us outlanders as well, the most detailed and affectionate portrait of a town meeting, which is, as Bryan says, 'where you learn to be a good citizen'."--Bill Kauffman"The American Conservative" (09/13/2004) " Bryan writes tellingly and thoroughly about Vermont's 210 annual town meetings over three decades . . . Bryan employs many of the sophisticated methodologies of political science to demonstrate that the New England town meeting is not merely a traditional method by which early Americans governed themselves. It still works well. . . . Obviously, New England can't be transferred to Iraq and Afghanistan, but its lessons are still relevant." -- Robert I. Rothberg "Christian Science Monitor" "'At a New England town meeting, ' Bryan proclaims, ' Adolf Hitler would have at once been recognized as a flaming jackass and subtly ostracized into impotence.' The serious point buried in his exuberant hyperbole is the lesson at the heart of this immensely readable and valuable book."
Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with particular reference to the New England town meeting which provides a model of such a pure form of democracy.
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