An urgent, thrilling, and original look at how power is gained and lost
MOISES NAIM is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an internationally syndicated columnist. He served as editor in chief of Foreign Policy, as Venezuela's trade minister, and as executive director of the World Bank.
"If you want to really understand the current global threat to
democracy, you should read The Revenge of Power. Mois�s Na�m has
written a masterpiece." --David Rubenstein, co-executive chairman
of The Carlyle Group, chairman of The Kennedy Center and The
Council on Foreign Relations
"In The Revenge of Power, Mois�s Na�m, one of the most acute
observers of world politics, comprehensively catalogs the threats
to democracy on the part of unaccountable dictators, populists, and
companies in recent years, drawing insightful parallels across
disparate domains. An important and timely work." --Francis
Fukuyama, Stanford University professor and author of Identity
"Another original book by an original thinker, offering a unique
global perspective on populism and power." --Anne Applebaum,
Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer, The Atlantic
"The Revenge of Power reminds me of why I consider Mois�s Na�m one
of the world's most exciting and original political thinkers. This
absorbing book explores the often contradictory trends that are
reshaping political power, and explains that our future depends on
how they get resolved. Essential reading." --Madeleine Albright,
former Secretary of State
"How did the 'end of history' turn into the renaissance of
autocracy? Mois�s Na�m brings his incisive analysis and global
perspective to the most disturbing question of the 21st century,
showing how populism, polarization and 'post-truth' politics have
powered the rise of leaders from Berlusconi to Bolsonaro, Orban to
Erdogan, Duterte to Donald Trump. Anyone who cares about the future
of truth and democracy should read this book." --Alan Murray, CEO
of FORTUNE
"An unusually smart, insightful, and elegantly written book about
why authoritarians and autocrats have risen to power around the
globe--and how we can defend democracy in our own backyards. No one
understands power better than Mois�s Na�m, and I was hooked from
the third sentence." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife "Na�m
delivers a cogent and accessible overview of the new
authoritarianism. Readers will agree that the matter is of urgent
concern." --Publishers Weekly "An authoritative and intelligent
portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism and its
dangers...what sets [this] work apart from books like Timothy
Snyder's On Tyranny and Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth is
its unusually comprehensive armada of facts about the international
drift over the past two decades toward authoritarian leaders,
whether old-style dictators like Kim Jong Un or nominally elected
presidents like Vladimir Putin." --Kirkus "The Revenge of Power is
an unnerving read...the book serves as a forceful wake-up call to
anyone who thinks a dictatorship can't happen here." --The
Progressive
"The Revenge of Power is wide-ranging in scope, providing insights
into our current crisis without trying to ferret out a single cause
of democratic decline....filled with illustrative histories of
various autocrats and the ways they honed their craft in their rise
to power." --Washington Post "A foreign-policy maven's account of
how recent demagogues have come to power and used the tools of our
time--social media, television, the society of spectacle--to
promote one-man rule and the suppression of dissent." --Adam
Gopnik, The New Yorker
Praise for The End of Power:
"The End of Power makes a truly important contribution,
persuasively portraying a compelling dynamic of change cutting
across multiple game-boards of the global power matrix."
--Washington Post
"This fascinating book...should provoke a debate about how to
govern the world when more and more people are in charge."
--Foreign Affairs
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