Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world   All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networ