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Surviving autocracy  Cover Image Book Book

Surviving autocracy / Masha Gessen.

Gessen, Masha, (author.).

Summary:

"An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593188934
  • ISBN: 0593188934
  • Physical Description: xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-270).
Formatted Contents Note:
What do we call it? -- Waiting for the Reichstag fire -- The Styrofoam president -- We could call it a kakistocracy -- We could call it corruption -- We could call it aspirational autocracy -- We could pretend he is an alien, or call it the government of destruction -- The death of dignity -- Mueller did not save us -- Institutions have not saved us -- Words have meaning, or they ought to -- The power lie -- The tweet trap -- Normalization is (almost) unavoidable -- Resisting Trump's war on the media -- How politics dies -- A white male supremacist president -- "Throwing off the mask of hypocrisy" -- The antipolitics of fear -- Confronting civil society -- The power of moral authority -- Who is "us"? And who are we?
Subject: Trump, Donald, 1946- > Influence.
Authoritarianism > United States.
Dictatorship > United States.
Political culture > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.

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