Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Ann

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimesA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written with urgency, intelligence and understanding, is her answer Timothy SnyderIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. Yet over the following decades the euphoria evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared, extremism rose once more and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too.Anne Applebaum traces this history in an unfamiliar way, looking at the trajectories of individuals caught up in the public events of the last three decades. When politics becomes polarized, which side do you back? If you are a journalist, an intellectual, a civic leader, how do you deal with the re-emergence of authoritarian or nationalist ideas in your country? When your leaders appropriate history, or pedal conspiracies, or eviscerate the media and the judiciary, do you go along with it?Twilight of Democracy is an essay that combines the personal and the political in an original way and brings a fresh understanding to the dynamics of public life in Europe and America, both now and in the recent past. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Anne Applebaum is the author of Gulag- A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, of Iron Curtain- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, which won the Cundill Prize, of Red Famine- Stalins War on Ukraine which won the Lionel Gelber and Duff Cooper prizes, and of the best-selling Twilight of Democracy. She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Britain, Poland and the USA Review Applebaums reflections on the anti-democratic pandemic sweeping our world offer an extraordinary mix of personal witness and dispassionate historical analysis.... Its unlikely that anyone will ever give us more sensitive or revealing insights on this question -- John Connelly * New Statesman *Heretics make the best writers. ... Applebaum can bring a candle into the darkness of the populist right ... her writing is an arsenal that stores the sharpest weapons to hand. -- Nick Cohen * Observer *Applebaums progress ...has yielded an enviable supply of raw material for her narrative. She mines her sources doggedly....Twilight of Democracy is a rather penetrating work of ethnography -- Trevor Phillips * The Times *Advancing her arguments with eloquence and personal testimony, Applebaum passionately decries the corrosion of liberal, open-society values in the last three decades. -- Chris Patten * Project Syndicate *written with deep insight, experience and wisdom. Definitely a very important book for understanding our troubled times and the fragility of our democracies -- Elif Shafak * Daily Mail *Anne Applebaums Twilight of Democracy is the most important non-fiction book of the year because it asks the most urgent question: why is the right wing in the West moving so far to the right? Why is it, at this point in history, so drawn to authoritarianism? Why has it given up on democracy? -- David Hare * New Statesman Books of the Year *this engrossing account ... is a political book; it is also intensely personal, and the more powerful for it. -- John Kampfner * Guardian *Applebaum, long an authority on the abuses of Communist and post-Communist Eastern Europe, in her new book Twilight of Democracy is unsparing in exposing the moral bankruptcy of Trumpian Republicanism. Her sharp pen is as persuasive as any in presenting the idea of the "west" as a morally serious project-and one whose loss we may come to mourn. -- The worlds top 50 thinkers 2020 * Prospect *A brilliant writer who sheds light on the most disturbing political phenomenon of our era: the rise of rightwing authoritarianism around the world... a cry of alarm and a call to arms.... We have been warned. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *readable, eloquent and passionate ... Applebaum knows what the enemy looks like from the inside, and how it thinks. This book may only be a start. We should cherish her. I think she has a lot more she can tell us. -- Francis Beckett * The New European *This richly informed book enlarges her account of the enormous peril in which the democracy we took so casually for granted now stands. -- Philip Pullman * New Statesman Books of the Year *Applebaums book asks why conservatives in the West have so willingly embraced deceipt, corruption and authoritarianism. She has answers, too. -- David Hare * The Week *From Brexit Britain and Donald Trumps America to the cynical politics of Poland and Hungary, she feels beset by a new chauvinist right that has no regard for rules, truth or institutions. Ms Applebaum evokes an acute sense of betrayal as people she trusted turn against her, quicker than she thought possible. Her personal story is a parable of what can happen to alliances in the absence of a common adversary, and when the hardships such enemies inflicted fade from memory. * Economist *This is an illuminating political memoir about the break-up of the political tribe that won the Cold War. -- David Goodhart * Literary Review *Equal parts memoir, reportage, and history, this sobering account of the roots and forms of todays authoritarianism, by one of its most accomplished observers, is meant as a warning to everyone. ... critically important for its muscular, oppositionist attack on the new right from within conservative ranks-and for the well-documented warning it embodies. The authors views are especially welcome because she is a deliberate thinker and astute observer rather than just the latest pundit or politico. In the spirit of Julien Benda, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno, Applebaum seeks to understand what makes the new right "more Bolshevik than Burkean."... A knowledgeable, rational, necessarily dark take on dark realities. * Kirkus Reviews * Review Text Applebaums reflections on the anti-democratic pandemic sweeping our world offer an extraordinary mix of personal witness and dispassionate historical analysis.... Its unlikely that anyone will ever give us more sensitive or revealing insights on this question Review Quote Applebaums reflections on the anti-democratic pandemic sweeping our world offer an extraordinary mix of personal witness and dispassionate historical analysis.... Its unlikely that anyone will ever give us more sensitive or revealing insights on this question Promotional "Headline" The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes Details ISBN0141991674 Author Anne Applebaum Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0141991674 ISBN-13 9780141991672 Format Paperback Pages 224 Short Title Twilight of Democracy Subtitle The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends DEWEY 320 Publication Date 2021-06-24 UK Release Date 2021-06-24 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Alternative 9780241419724 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education NZ Release Date 2021-07-01 AU Release Date 2021-07-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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