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How to Lose a Country
- The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
- Narrated by: Ece Temelkuran
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it’s too late.
‘It couldn’t happen here’.
Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote.
She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump’s election was soundtracked by chants of ‘build that wall’.
She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it as Erdoğan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism and labelled his opposition as terrorists.
How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully formed into government; they creep. Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon sprouting up across the world, from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to define a global pattern and arm the listener with the tools to root it out.
Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing - and too often paralysing - political questions of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ‘real people’, the infantilisation of language and debate, the way laughter can prove a false friend, and the dangers of underestimating one’s opponent. She weaves memoir, history and clear-sighted argument into an urgent and eloquent defence of democracy.
No longer can the reasonable comfort themselves with ‘it couldn’t happen here’. It is happening. And soon it may be too late.
Critic Reviews
"Highly readable and vibrates with outrage." (The Times, Hannah Lucinda Smith)
"A brilliant analysis of how democracy can be starved to death. It's one of the most important books anyone could read at the moment, when public institutions are slowly being corrupted wherever we look." (Philip Pullman)
"Temelkuran, a treasure of a novelist, turns a nonfiction eye to the burning topic of today: populism. Vivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, How to Lose a Country is essential reading for everyone on planet Earth." (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less)
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-2019
Amazing
Loved it, an inspiration an eye opener and a must read for anyone trying to understand the rise of populism in our society.
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- Jackie Child
- 11-09-2020
concise and informative
Loved it! Very informative and a must read. I really enjoyed the authors reading of the book. Turkeys shift from liberal to authoritarian government and the creeping populism around the world is something we should all be concerned about today. The term 'truth island' is so succinctly put. It is very much a part of my vocabulary now.
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