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Surviving Autocracy

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2020
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-676-3 (ISBN)
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The only book you need to read to understand the events of the past four years in Trump's America, from the prize-winning Russian-American New Yorker writer.
'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

Since Trump's inauguration in 2016, a new mantra has taken hold: 'this isn't normal'. And in Trump's response to Covid-19, we have witnessed the extreme consequences of his presidency, and of a government at war with itself. In this searing analysis of the Trump administration, acclaimed New Yorker journalist and prizewinning author Masha Gessen provides an indispensible overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years, and proposes a new understanding of Trumpism and the way it has transformed and endangered American society.

Drawing on two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen links together seemingly disparate elements of Trump's regime to offer a roadmap to his approach, policies, and ultimate aims. Highlighting an inventory of ravages to liberal democracy, including the corrosion of the media, the justice system, and cultural norms, Gessen posits that America is in the throes of an autocratic takeover.

As other world leaders queue up to take pages straight out of Trump's playbook, Gessen's penetrating analysis of his misdeeds explains why and how he is degrading our politics, our institutions, and our language, and what we, our political representatives, and our media can do to stop him - and those who seek to imitate him.

Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face. The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 331 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-78378-676-0 / 1783786760
ISBN-13 978-1-78378-676-3 / 9781783786763
Zustand Neuware
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