Democracy Matters

In his bestseller Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Democracy Matters is a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as many as one hundred public lectures a year and appears regularly on radio and television. Praised by The New York Times for his ferocious moral vision and hailed by Newsweek as an elegant prophet with attitude, he bridges the gap between black and white opinion about the country's problems.