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PublisherDiversified Publishing

ISBN-100593286006

ISBN-139780593286005

eBay Product ID (ePID)24038786582

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Book TitleSurviving Autocracy

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPolitical Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Commentary & Opinion, American Government / General, American Government / Executive Branch, Essays

Publication Year2020

FeaturesLarge Type

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMasha Gessen

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal973.933

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

Synopsis"When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen. " -- The New York Times "A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact." -- Interview As seen on MSNBC 's Morning Joe and heard on NPR 's All Things Considered : the bestselling, National Book Award - winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy--and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery--and to the hope of what comes next., "When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen. " -- The New York Times "A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact." -- Interview As seen on MSNBC 's Morning Joe and heard on NPR 's All Things Considered the bestselling, National Book Award - winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy--and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery--and to the hope of what comes next.