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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

37/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

100/100

Author:

Anne Applebaum

Publisher:

Doubleday

Date:

July 21, 2020

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.

What The Reviewers Say

Ron Elving,
NPR
...the better book to buy for insight into what Trump's rise and rule really mean—here and abroad—for democracy in our time.
DAVID GOODHART,
The Literary Review (UK)
... an illuminating political memoir about the break-up of the political tribe that won the Cold War. It can be read with profit even if you disagree, as I do, with the thesis it is wrapped up in.
Sheri Berman,
The Washington Post
Her historical expertise and knowledge of contemporary Europe and the United States illuminate what is eternal and distinctive about the political perils facing us today.
John Kampfner,
The Guardian (UK)
... engrossing.