We the Fallen People
The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
- 2021 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Arguing that we must take an unflinching look at the nature of democracy—and therefore, ourselves—historian Robert Tracy McKenzie explores the ideas of human nature in the history of American democratic thought, from the nation's founders through the Jacksonian era and Alexis de Tocqueville.
