Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne ApplebaumA Sunday Times Bestseller The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security

'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked

utterly captivating

and for ladies from Nazi Berlin's upper crust

from his struggling early career to his widely reported

Parallel to this she reconnects with an old flame

entirely new

travelling and taking notes

The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and historical narrative

as the Crafts fled to England to embark upon a new life

'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONE

Set during a period of British politics dominated by the presence of the newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

and William James