Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Now, Diamond makes the stark argument that if the U.S does not reclaim its traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami.

At a moment when history hinges between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal, Ill Winds offers impassioned, deeply informed suggestions no how we can revive America's degraded democracy and make every vote count.