Autocracy, Inc.
Book description
The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality.…
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It was a wake-up call to make us see that modern autocracies have evolved and are now far more complicated than ever before. The internet and the wealth that today’s autocrats seek to invest in our countries has also provided them with far more insidious ways of infiltrating and weakening our societies from within than was available to previous generations of dictators. The new generation is more like an agglomeration of companies, bound not by ideology but rather by a ruthless, single-minded determination to preserve their personal wealth and power: "Autocracy, Inc.” The book is a call to arms, to…
I found Anne Applebaum’s book a pleasure to read; it drew me in quickly with its unique, anecdotal style, as her amazing detail shocks and frightens us: it’s an essential, firsthand account of how easy it is for democracy to be threatened, and why we must pay attention to this creeping reality.
From C.L.'s list on worried about democracy now.
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