Twilight of Democracy - The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism - Anne Applebaum

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.