From Wikipedia:
Anne Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism. Applebaum also holds Polish citizenship.
Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2004 for Gulag: A History.
Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C. to a reform Jewish family,
In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who later served as Poland’s Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, Marshal of the Sejm, and a member of the European Parliament. Since 2023, he serves again as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
She currently lives in Poland
Her most recent books:
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
My thoughts
Autocracy, Inc presents the undeniable evidence for the cooperative behavior of the autocrats of the world. They want to keep other autocrats in power and use their power to influence and lower the creditability of democracies around the world.
Responding to the second book, I have read in social media the views of people who excuse manipulating elections to get a result that is better, in their opinion, for democracy. They also want to use autocratic techniques such as banning websites and books of opponents to better our democracy.
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