{"product_id":"surviving-autocracy-9780593332245","title":"Surviving Autocracy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eInterview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs seen on MSNBC\u003cb\u003e's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMorning Joe\u003c\/i\u003e and heard on NPR\u003cb\u003e's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e the bestselling, National Book Award\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003ewinning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eSurviving Autocracy\u003c\/i\u003e is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery--and to the hope of what comes next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasha Gessen \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eleven other books, including the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eA staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697183822098,"sku":"9780593332245","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6def64c4-9879-4b40-9b8a-dd61911bc0e6.jpg?v=1734296082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surviving-autocracy-9780593332245","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}