Surviving Autocracy
By: Masha Gessen
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's essential guide to understanding, resisting…
Want to Read $ 12.99"As Trump marches on to the rhythm of near-daily twitter rants, daily outrages, and weekly embarrassments, it remains unimaginable—even if it is observable. To think that a madman could be running the world’s most powerful country, to think that the commander in chief would use twitter to mouth off about whose nuclear button is bigger or to call himself a ‘very stable genius’ verges on the impossible. This can’t be happening. This is happening – The thought pattern of nightmares and real-life disasters has become the constant routine of tens of millions of people. Every Trump tweet, televised statement, and headline causes a form of this reaction. If the word ‘unthinkable’ had literal meaning, this would be it: thinking about it makes the mind misfire; it makes one want to stop thinking. It brings to mind the psychiatrist Judith Herman’s definition of a related word: ‘certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud,’ she once wrote. ‘This is the meaning of the word unspeakable.’ The Trump era is unimaginable, unthinkable, unspeakable. It is waging a daily assault on the public’s sense of sanity, decency, and cohesion. It makes us feel crazy, and the restrained tone of the media compounds this feeling by failing to acknowledge it."-Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy
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Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
2. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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3. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
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Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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4. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
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Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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5. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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6. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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7. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
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Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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8. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
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Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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9. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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10. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
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4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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13. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
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4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. Surviving Autocracy
By: Masha Gessen
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"As Trump marches on to the rhythm of near-daily twitter rants, daily outrages, and weekly embarrassments, it remains unimaginable—even if it is observable. To think that a madman could be running the…"-Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy
15. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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19. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It
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20. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
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21. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
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