Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385545808)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

The 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.

Author: Anne Applebaum
ISBN-10: 0385545800
ISBN-13: 9780385545808
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.80w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2020 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2020
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2020
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 66