{"product_id":"empire-of-democracy-simon-reid-henry-9781473670563","title":"Empire of Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale 'crisis of democracy' - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent - a new political-economic order was devised and the post-war social contract written anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and Western history with it, was profoundly re-imagined when the post-war Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the Cold War, ushering in an economic boom and a new spirit of optimism by the millennium. But the war on terror and the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007\/8 shone a different light upon the decisions taken to secure capitalist democracy in the 1970s, laying the basis for the anti-liberal surge of recent times: from Viktor Orban and Marine le Pen, to Brexit and Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe present crisis of liberalism demands us to revisit these unscripted decades. The era we have lived through is closing out; democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this gripping history reminds us, the choices we make going forward require us first to understand where we have been.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Reid-Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43173358076147,"sku":"9781473670563","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781473670563.jpg?v=1662057033","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/empire-of-democracy-simon-reid-henry-9781473670563","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}