1     Aristotle, Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959).

2     Bernard Crick, In Defense of Politics (New York: Penguin Books, 1993).

3     Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1966).

4     Sheldon Wolin, The Presence of the Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 139.

5     Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).

6     David Nyberg, Power Over Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), 37.

7     Avishai Margalit, The Decent Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).

8     Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Bantam Books, 1970).

9     Neil Postman, The End of Education (New York: Vintage Books, 1996).