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Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." --Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.
From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.
Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. She has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for various British publications. She is a Yale graduate and a Marshall Scholar. Her writing has also featured in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385545808 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385545800 |
| Title | Twilight of Democracy |
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2020-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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