Autor Erica Benner

Sparkling . . .a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times'Highly stimulating . . .wonderfully readable . . .her analysis of democracy's key strengths and weaknesses is forensic' Literary…

'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, the GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive:…

'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it…