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Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1973), and Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993); Corey Robin, Fear: the History of a Political Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Sheldon Wolin, "Inverted Totalitarianism: How the Bush Regime Is Effecting the Transformation to a Fascist-Like State," The Nation, May 19, 2003, 13-15, and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008). Wolin laid the grounds for his thinking about democracy and totality in Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961/2004).
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Judith Shklar , "The Liberalism of Fear," in Political Thought and Political Thinkers, ed. Stanley Hoffman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 3-20; Ira Katznelson, "At the Court of Chaos: Political Science in an Age of Perpetual Fear," Perspectives on Politics5 (March 2007): 3-15.
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John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Thiess-Morse, Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs about How Government Should Work (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
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Sheri Berman, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press2006), 17.
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Immanuel Kant, "An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" in Kant: Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, trans. H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press1970), 55. In this review man has been changed to people without affecting Kant’s original meaning.
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Woody Allen, Getting Even (New York: Vintage , 1978), 50.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J.P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper Perennial, 2000): 243.
