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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Audiobook
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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.
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"Interesting read, made me notice patterns when talking to friends and family, which might be attracted by the authoritarian allure.I enjoy that the author read the book herself. It's written from a more subject point of view than her other books, which makes it seem at times that she personally has a axe to grind with some people. "
— DrDesmond (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Friendships torn. Ideals betrayed. Alliances broken…Analysis, reportage, and memoir, Twilight of Democracy fearlessly tells the shameful story of a political generation gone bad.”
— David Frum, New York Times bestselling author
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New York Times bestseller
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A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in Twenty-First Century World History
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Garry Potts, 2/6/2023
About Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum worked for seventeen years as a columnist at the Washington Post and then became a staff writer at The Atlantic in 2020. She is the author of five critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize.