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Surviving Autocracy -- Masha Gessen, Hardcover
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American Government, Books, Books › Subjects › Politics & Social Sciences › Politics & Government › United States › Executive Branch, Commentary & Opinion, Essays, Executive Branch, Hardcover, Masha Gessen, Political culture - United States, Political Science, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics / Current Events, Riverhead Books, Subjects, United States"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.
Author: Masha Gessen
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593188934
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2020 pg. 7
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2020 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2020 pg. 72
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2020
Shelf Awareness 06/12/2020
"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.
Author: Masha Gessen
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593188934
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2020 pg. 7
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2020 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2020 pg. 72
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2020
Shelf Awareness 06/12/2020
About the Author
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven other books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.