Anne Applebaum Unisex Twilight Of Democracy: The Failure Of Politics And The Parting Of Friends By - Non Fiction - Hardcover

Anne Applebaum

Title:. Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Hardcover Overview:. Twilight of Democracy surveys a perilous evolution of Western politics. In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a remarkable achievement: a sense of common purpose, and in many cases, friendships that crossed ideological lines. Applebaum argues that that moment of confident liberal consensus produced a fertile ground for reform and cooperation. Yet over the following decades the euphoria dissolved, the center ground narrowed, and extremism found new life. The relationships that once bridged party divides grew strained as disagreements hardened into distrust, and intellectual courage yielded to political convenience. The book moves from high-level political shifts to intimate portraits of actors who changed the course of history—leaders, diplomats, journalists, an...