Books, Arts & Manners: Seedlings of Democracy

The Struggle for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber and Patrick Watson (Little, Brown, 298 pp., $29.95)

The worldwide struggle for democracy, extending to the unlikeliest of places (the Soviet empire and Communist China), is the central event of this era. How these democracies will form or whether they will emerge at all are questions whose answers elude the pundits. But on one issue there is agreement: democracy is blossoming. In some quarters there is the belief that 1989 will be recorded as an historic year, somewhat analogous to 1848.

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The Struggle for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber and Patrick Watson (Little, Brown, 298 pp., $29.95)

The worldwide struggle for democracy, extending to the unlikeliest of places (the Soviet empire and Communist China), is the central event of this era. How these democracies will form or whether they will emerge at all are questions whose answers elude the pundits. But on one issue there is agreement: democracy is blossoming. In some quarters there is the belief that 1989 will be recorded as an historic year, somewhat analogous to 1848.