The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber

Published 2013 · 89,650 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement to read?

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement scores 52 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
Political and anthropological vocabulary, plainly used.
Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
Readable, conversational sentences.
Abstraction: 62 out of 100
Eyewitness account carrying an argument about democracy itself.
Information density: 60 out of 100
Moderate; history and reportage together.

How The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement is regarded

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement holds a literary regard score of 50 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

David Graeber