This summer the Village Literary Club has demonstrated the range of its reading tastes: from a new book on reparations, to a 1970’s novel about slavery, to the September book, Anne Applebaum’s The Twilight of Democracy; The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2020, 224 pp). In Twilight, Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and journalist who will be familiar to readers of the Post and the Atlantic, charts the decline of democracy in three countries: Poland, the UK, and the US (with some discussion of Hungary). Applebaum’s book is a warning--her theme is how fragile democracy is and how its survival depends on the choices and decisions made by ordinary people. Ron Elving of NPR suggests that Applebaum’s very readable book is “a better book to buy for useful information on what Trump’s rise and rule really mean—here and abroad—for democracy in our time.”

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