Analysis of the book Democracy
Kelli Burchfield 10/31/03 Democracy: An American Novel is a great book to compare politics today to politics in the late 1800s. When I started this book I thought there was no way that politics over one hundred years ago could be anything like politics today in the 21st century. ... In one particular chapter in the book, Mrs. ... On one page in the book, Madeleine is asked what she has learned about politics, and she replies along the lines of this, “I can no longer distinguish between right and wrong, is that politics? ... Democracy: An American Novel really opened my eyes to the true world of politics. This book seems to still apply to the government and the way it is being run today. ... Politics in the late 1800s when this book was written was corrupt and dreadful just as politics seems to be today. In the book Ratcliffe made a remark that he did not know how there was a government at all.