A well-written concise book looking at the way fascism/autocratic forms of government establish themselves in a democratic context. Step by step, technique by technique analysis. Reads like a "how to" manual for would-be dictators.
Each critical step draws examples from history, mostly Mussolini and Hitler, and then looks at these same steps being taken currently in various countries around the world from the U.S. to Turkey to Russia to many others.
It is both interesting and useful to look at these steps and ask which ones you see currently operating within your own society. Kind of a social health check-up.
Worth reading several times.
Also worth reading in tandem with Ece Temelkuran's recent book, "How to Lose a Country".
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