Surviving Autocracy

　　「當代不可或缺的觀點。」—紐約時報暢銷書冠軍《暴政》作者提摩西·史奈德
　　「這個時代，自大已經變態成一種專制，我們需要這本手冊。」—科克斯書評
　　「雖然逆耳卻必須的忠言，提醒我們身陷何種危機之中。」—書單雜誌

　　2016年美國總統大選競選活動跑如火如荼之際，瑪莎·格森從川普的演講與行徑中嗅出其異於眾多候選人之處，並精準道出其何以令人擔憂。

　　在川普勝選的48小時內，格森的《獨裁：倖存法則》在網上引發熱議；川普當上總統後，美國會變成什麼樣？從格森的文章中，人們看到一點具體的樣貌。

　　格森的童年在蘇俄政權下度過，而後近二十年都在報導俄羅斯極權主義再起的議題，故對於獨裁有出乎常人的第六感，對相關議題也具獨樹一格的觀點，並能以跨文化的視角分析美國現況。

　　本書揭示，從媒體的沈淪、司法的腐敗，乃至道德的敗壞，在在讓我們看見，過去幾年社會氛圍每下愈況，不見轉機。此外，本書進一步探討一向自詡為民族大熔爐的美國，是如何在短短幾年變成仇視移民的國家，而人民何以不再重視真理的價值、生命的意義與未來的盼望。

　　(文/博客來編譯)

　　“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times

　　“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview

　　As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.

　　This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.

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 TheNew Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.