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5.0 out of 5 stars Someone Retrieve This One, December 30, 2003

By	X "Buce" (Palookaville) - See all my reviews

How to build an English garden: you start 300 years ago. Guido de Ruggiero does not quote this old canard but it is a pretty good summary of his views in this book, which cries out to be reprinted. It's about the best succinct summary I ever saw on the topic of how liberal society/government comes into being. He shows compellingly how liberal society is something grown, not created and how 'new' states (including, in his own time, Italy) that merely try to copy some Western example are headed for trouble. As a quick summary of English/British history it is dazzling. As a short course in academic political theory, it would be a good crammer for an exam. It would be an excellent pendant to Richard Pipes' discussion of the "patrimonial" tradition in Russia (in Pipes' 'Russia Under the Old Regime,' which I also review in its place). One detects a strong aroma of this book between the pages of Fareed Zakaria's much-publicized recent book, 'The Future of Freedom.' It is interesting to speculate on how de Ruggiero might have influenced debate on Iraq has he been in wide circulation over the past year or so.