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Masha Gessen: Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover, 2020, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

This is a very good book, but not quite the one I was hoping it would be. I was hoping based on the title that this was an expansion of the more practical advice from Gessen’s 2016 article “Autocracy: Rules for Survival”, but instead it’s more of a chronicle of Trump’s (first 😬) term as President. More of a diagnosis when I wanted a prescription. Still a great read tho!