{"product_id":"democracy-von-henry-adams-1","title":"Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt age thirty, Madeleine Lee, a wealthy, wellborn widow, has tired of Gilded Age New York and its shallow society. She decides to spend the winter in Washington with her sister, renting a house on Lafayette Square, within easy reach of all the intense partying, horse-trading, and other activities that politics requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she makes friends (and enemies) with the locals, one question remains uppermost in Madeleine Lee¿s mind: ¿Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right. There is only one thing in life that I must and will have before I die. I must know whether America is right or wrong.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe visits the White House, George Washington¿s estate, and the newly established Arlington Cemetery, accompanied by politicians, diplomats, aristocrats, and the newly rich. But it¿s not until a marriage offer from an ambitious senator that things come to a head. Mrs. Lee must decide what she is and isn¿t willing to do to satisfy her own ambition for power, and whether she can trust herself to use that power for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemocracy: An American Novel was first published anonymously on April Fools¿ Day in 1880. The fact that Adams hid his identity helped make it a best seller, as readers tried to guess who was close enough to Washington society to portray it so knowingly¿and maliciously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wasn¿t until two full years after Adams¿s death that his publisher identified him as the novel¿s author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041801039\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041801039","offer_id":46947887808837,"sku":"9791041801039","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3f6a2ec2-439c-4aee-9ba9-ebc4d68ba100.jpg?v=1763105612","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/democracy-von-henry-adams-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}