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On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Liberty Press) by Bertrand De Jouvenel jim lamarche As these children have agedDocumenting the process by which government and controlling majorities have grown increasingly powerful and tyrannical, Bertrand de Jouvenel demonstrates how democracies have failed to limit the powers of government. Jouvenel traces this development to the days of royal absolutism, which established large administrative bureaucracies and thus laid the foundation of the modern omnipotent state. Table of Contents: Foreword xv Translator's Note xxi The