The Democratic Prospect Author:Charles Frankel "To read this serious and thoughtful book is a satisfaction. It is impossible to consider The Democratic Prospect without feeling that democracy is indeed worth struggling for, and--what may be equally hard--worth thinking about seriously." -August Heckscher, New York Herald Tribune — "He takes one by one the criticisms that have been brought aga... more »inst contemporary American democracy and shows that, although many of their assertions are true, the fundamental conclusion that American society is sick comes from the fact that the critics, when bewailing the changes that have taken place, have not understood their meaning. Frankel's analysis of the changes, and particularly of their meaning, is very impressive." -W.D. Nutting, The Review of Politics« less