Anne Applebaum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Anne Applebaum is an author and staff writer at The Atlantic. Staff writer @TheAtlantic. @SNFAgoraJHU. Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy. also: anneapplebaum@journa.host
Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
Brooke HarringtonAnne ApplebaumIn order to write the book, [Harrington] trained as a financial adviser — and so entered that world and learned how it worked from the inside. She writes very well about the rules, the way the system functions but also the values of the people who are inside of it.
Hardcover, 2024
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
Catherine MerridaleAnne ApplebaumFor those who asked what to read about the Red Army: Catherine Merridale," Ivan's War" on ordinary soldiers Keith Sword on Soviet takeover of eastern Poland, so eerily similar My book, "Iron Curtain", opens with this subject Antony Beevor's "Berlin" describes the wave of rape
Paperback, 2007
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Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian KlaasAnne ApplebaumDoes power really corrupt? Or do corrupt people seek power? Read "Corruptible" by @brianklaas for an exploration of those very old questions.... https://t.co/QQKwhgKEWb
Paperback, 2022
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan ZweigAnne ApplebaumDon't know how I managed not to read it before now, but if you want an absorbing description of how someone experiences and processes radical political change, you won't find anything better than Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, written in 1941.
Paperback, 2013
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy SnyderAnne ApplebaumRT @michaeldweiss: Evidently the Taliban existed in the 1980s. This is what Timothy Snyder addressed in “The Road to Unfreedom” — an entire…
Paperback, 2019
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Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah ArendtAnne ApplebaumThe Origins of Totalitarianism does not contain a set of policy prescriptions, or directions on how to fix things. Instead it offers...ways to think about the lure of autocracy and the seductive appeal of its proponents as we grapple with them in our own time.
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American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
Casey MichelAnne ApplebaumYou think money-laundering is something that happens on palm-fringed islands, that kleptocracy is a problem for distant dictatorships? Think again A review of 'American Kleptocracy' by @cjcmichel and 'Kleptopia' by @tomburgis https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/american-kleptocracy-kleptopia-united-states-dirty-money/620852/
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Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Sergei GurievAnne ApplebaumU.S. voters will find it useful to read this book and then ask themselves whether any of the candidates in their local senatorial or gubernatorial race have explicitly adopted the language and tactics originally created by modern autocrats.
Hardcover, 2022
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No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
Nury TurkelAnne ApplebaumTomorrow is the official publication date of NO ESCAPE by @nuryturkel. Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it. Turkey uses his life story, and the stories of others, to tell the recent history of the Uighur people. Every chapter is shocking. https://t.co/xbQdku2rIs
Hardcover, 2022
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