Volume 22, Number 4 · March 20, 1975
Bearers of Bad Tidings: Writers and the American Dream
By Robert Penn Warren
Thomas Jefferson never applied the word democrat to himself, nor does the word democracy appear in the Declaration of Independence. In that time the word was, in fact, almost synonymous with riot and anarchy. But Jefferson did envisage a society in which free men—of independent self—would exercise their franchise in the light of reason.
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