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Moiss Nams The Revenge of Power is an urgent thrilling and original look at the future of democracy It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world
In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power Moiss Nam examined powerdiluting forces In The Revenge of Power Nam turns to the trends conditions and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it He concentrates on the three Pspopulism polarization and posttruths All of which are as old as time but are combined by todays autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways Power has not changed But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed
The Revenge of Power connects the dots between global events and political tactics that when taken together show a profound and often stealthy transformation in power and politics worldwide Using the best available data and insights taken from recent research in the social sciences Nam reveals how on close examination the same set of strategies to consolidate power pop up again and again in places with vastly different political economic and social circumstances and offers insights about what can be done to ensure that freedom and democracy prevail
The outcomes of these battles for power will determine if our future will be more autocratic or more democratic These outcomes will in turn depend on the capacity of our democracies to survive the attacks and dirty tricks of autocratic leaders bent on weakening the checks and balances that limit their power Nam addresses the questions at the heart of the matter What are in practice those attacks and tricks Why is power concentrating in some places while in others it is fragmenting and degrading And the big question What is the future of freedom
A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press
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