Twilight of democracy the seductive lure of authoritarianism

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal...

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Main Author: Applebaum, Anne, 1964- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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