The Hidden History of American Democracy — Who Invented Democracy?
Where do democratic ideas actually come from—and what disappears when history reduces their origins to a single intellectual tradition?
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Using The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates the cultural and intellectual pathways through which ideas about liberty, consent, equality, and self-government developed and circulated.
Hartmann challenges the familiar account that emphasizes Greece, Rome, and the European…
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