Gessen, Masha, <br/><br/>
Surviving autocracy  
Masha Gessen. 
 - New York :  Riverhead Books,  2020 
 - xvi, 270 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/> HB 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780593188934 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020003180 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Trump, Donald, 1946- --Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authoritarianism--United States.<br/>Dictatorship--United States.<br/>Political culture--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--2017-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E912  / .G467 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.933  / GES