Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen will take on President Trump in a new book, her publisher announced on Tuesday.
Riverhead Books will publish Surviving Autocracy this spring. The publisher describes the book as “agalvanizing analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity.”
“Surviving Autocracy provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Gessen not only highlights the corrosion of the media, the judiciary, and other cherished institutions, but also tells us the story of how a short few years have changed us, from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility,” Riverhead says.
Gessen was raised in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. She is the author of several books, including The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Surviving Autocracy is slated for publication on June 2.
Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
