# A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense

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- Authors: [Normand Baillargeon](https://www.bookquiver.com/normand-baillargeon), [Charb](https://www.bookquiver.com/charb), [Andrea Schmidt](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrea-schmidt)
- Publisher: seven_stories_press
- ISBN: 978-15-8322-765-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2008-02-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian...