Numbers rule: the vexing mathematics of democracy, from Plato to the present

The anti-democrat

The letter writer

The mystic

The cardinal

The officer

The marquis

The mathematician

The Oxford don

The founding fathers

The ivy leaguers

The pessimists

The quotarians

The postmoderns.

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ONE: THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT; TWO: THE LETTER WRITER; THREE: THE MYSTIC; FOUR: THE CARDINAL; FIVE: THE OFFICER; SIX: THE MARQUIS; SEVEN: THE MATHEMATICIAN; EIGHT: THE OXFORD DON; NINE: THE FOUNDING FATHERS; TEN: THE IVY LEAGUERS; ELEVEN: THE PESSIMISTS; TWELVE: THE QUOTARIANS; THIRTEEN: THE POSTMODERNS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.