Democracy Lost and Found focuses on the gradual development of two diametrically opposed views of “democracy” in two profoundly different countries: Norway, with its egalitarian social democracy built from the ground up, and the USA, now a plutocracy, built from the top down to produce, as the economist Thorstein Veblen put it, a nation of “the predators and the poor.” Democracy Lost and Found introduces readers to some of the Norwegian and Norwegian-American thinkers who built social democracy – in sharp contrast to the long line of American presidents chosen for their inclination to serve the interests of the already rich.