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Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present

Table of Contents

PREFACE ix
CHAPTER ONE: THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT 1
CHAPTER TWO: THE LETTER WRITER 22
CHAPTER THREE: THE MYSTIC 33
CHAPTER FOUR: THE CARDINAL 50
CHAPTER FIVE: THE OFFICER 60
CHAPTER SIX: THE MARQUIS 73
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MATHEMATICIAN 89
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE OXFORD DON 100
CHAPTER NINE: THE FOUNDING FATHERS 119
CHAPTER TEN: THE IVY LEAGUERS 134
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PESSIMISTS 165
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE QUOTARIANS 187
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE POSTMODERNS 202
BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
INDEX 219

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