Books
by Anne Applebaum
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World |
In this masterful tour d’horizon of the world’s political woes and the villains behind them, the author paints a chilling picture of the links between dubious regimes and the international criminal community. The tide of democracy has turned, elections have become shams and government corruption has become a growing worldwide industry. She offers no antidotes except to exhort democracies, if they are to survive, to reframe our world view and learn how to fight back.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 114 Autumn 2024) |
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Twilight of Democracy: The failures of politics and the parting of friends |
A dawn of the millennium party in Poland, a country celebrating its liberation from the Soviet yoke. Twenty years later, another party with some old friends purposefully absent either by the author's or their own volition. These events bookend Applebaum's awakening to the rise of authoritarianism in her adopted country, in Europe and elsewhere. Her writing is very fluent and her confessions startingly personal. She admits she should have questioned her former friends earlier and harder.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 98 Autumn 2020) |
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