Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply engaged in both Europe and America: how did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written with urgency, intelligence and understanding, is her answer. Timothy SnyderFriendships torn. Ideals betrayed. Alliances broken. In this, her most personal book, a great historian explains why so ma ...