Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ...

is Applebaum' s answer."—Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe 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.