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<p> </p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><br /></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/democracy_hoppe_750x516_20210413.jpg?itok=redI7Gzi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; vertical-align: middle;" title="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/democracythegodthatfailed1.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/democracy-god-failed-audiobook" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>
