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Gessen, Masha.
Subjects
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
Authoritarianism -- United States.
Dictatorship -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
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Gessen, Masha.
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
Authoritarianism -- United States.
Dictatorship -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
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Surviving autocracy / Masha Gessen.
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Gessen, Masha.
Riverhead Books, 2020.
Call #:
973
.933
G392s
Subjects
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
Authoritarianism -- United States.
Dictatorship -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
ISBN:
9780593188934 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 270 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
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?
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."--From publisher.
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973.933 G392s
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