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Praise for Surviving Autocracy When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen. --The New York Times The Platonic ideal of the anti-Trump Trump book. . . . Offers discomfort and reassurance at once. --The Washington Post An indispensable voice of and for this moment. --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Urgent . . . Gessen's credentials as an observer of autocracy are impeccable. . . . Surviving Autocracy sharpens an edge of disgust lately blunted by relentless use. --The New York Review of Books The fearless Russian American journalist probes the black hole between fact and fantasy in [a] taut, incisive critique. --O, The Oprah Magazine Gessen brings . . . a unique blend of intellect and manifold passions. . . [flashing] the fierce attitude and language of the partisan activist in one moment, returning to the cooler mien of a public intellectual the next. --NPR Brilliant. . . . [Gessen's] clarity is gemlike and refusal to equivocate precious. --The Guardian (London) A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact. --Interview Gessen's decades-long experience covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia puts them in a unique position to help Americans understand what is happening to the United States under President Donald Trump. . . . Gessen shows us that having the language to understand what is happening is the first step to surviving, and ultimately resisting, an autocratic future. --The Nation It's hard to imagine someone more poised to write a book called Surviving Autocracy than Masha Gessen. . . . It's a crucial book for our times. --The New York Observer Unfailingly polemical, precise and analytic. --New Statesman (London) A stark wake-up call; to those who are looking for what happens now, Gessen's notes on how we need to rebuild the concept of a 'we' in our time are warm and moving, a light of hope that these years can be survived. --Lit Hub A blistering appraisal. . . . Surviving Autocracy isn't merely important reading for anyone who plans to cast a vote in that election, it's essential. --Shelf Awareness A brisk, trenchant account . . . . Gessen's meticulous research and familiarity with the political and cultural history of post-Soviet Russia lend her arguments an authority lacking in other takedowns of Trump. Liberals looking to make sense of what they're up against in the 2020 elections should consider this a must-read. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A handbook for an age in which egomania is morphing into autocracy at warp speed. . . . Belongs on the shelf alongside Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Amy Siskind's The List as a record of how far we have fallen. Gessen is a Suetonius for our time, documenting the death of the old America while holding out slim hope for its restoration. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Gessen's is a clarion voice in the darkness, offering a sobering but sharp-witted analysis of how American society has changed under Trump. . . . [their] rallying cry is a vital and pressing reminder of what's at stake. --Booklist (starred review)

Praise for Surviving Autocracy: When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen. -The New York Times The Platonic ideal of the anti-Trump Trump book. . . . Offers discomfort and reassurance at once. -The Washington Post An indispensable voice of and for this moment. -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Urgent . . . Gessen's credentials as an observer of autocracy are impeccable. . . . Surviving Autocracy sharpens an edge of disgust lately blunted by relentless use. -The New York Review of Books The fearless Russian American journalist probes the black hole between fact and fantasy in [a] taut, incisive critique. -O, The Oprah Magazine Gessen brings . . . a unique blend of intellect and manifold passions. . . [flashing] the fierce attitude and language of the partisan activist in one moment, returning to the cooler mien of a public intellectual the next. -NPR Brilliant. . . . [Gessen's] clarity is gemlike and refusal to equivocate precious. -The Guardian (London) A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact. -Interview Gessen's decades-long experience covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia puts them in a unique position to help Americans understand what is happening to the United States under President Donald Trump. . . . Gessen shows us that having the language to understand what is happening is the first step to surviving, and ultimately resisting, an autocratic future. -The Nation It's hard to imagine someone more poised to write a book called Surviving Autocracy than Masha Gessen. . . . It's a crucial book for our times. -The New York Observer Unfailingly polemical, precise and analytic. -New Statesman (London) A stark wake-up call; to those who are looking for what happens now, Gessen's notes on how we need to rebuild the concept of a 'we' in our time are warm and moving, a light of hope that these years can be survived. -Lit Hub A blistering appraisal. . . . Surviving Autocracy isn't merely important reading for anyone who plans to cast a vote in that election, it's essential. -Shelf Awareness A brisk, trenchant account . . . . Gessen's meticulous research and familiarity with the political and cultural history of post-Soviet Russia lend her arguments an authority lacking in other takedowns of Trump. Liberals looking to make sense of what they're up against in the 2020 elections should consider this a must-read. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) A handbook for an age in which egomania is morphing into autocracy at warp speed. . . . Belongs on the shelf alongside Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Amy Siskind's The List as a record of how far we have fallen. Gessen is a Suetonius for our time, documenting the death of the old America while holding out slim hope for its restoration. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Gessen's is a clarion voice in the darkness, offering a sobering but sharp-witted analysis of how American society has changed under Trump. . . . [their] rallying cry is a vital and pressing reminder of what's at stake. -Booklist (starred review)

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Masha Gessen is the author of eleven other books, including the National Book Award–winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.

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