NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Comprehensive enlightening and terrifyingly timely.-The New York
Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE
LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time •
Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us
never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky
and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in
Europe and Latin America and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a
bang-in a revolution or military coup-but with a whimper: the slow steady weakening of
critical institutions such as the judiciary and the press and the gradual erosion of
long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road
to authoritarianism. The bad news is that by electing Trump we have already passed the first
one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples from
1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary Turkey and Venezuela to the American South during Jim
Crow Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die-and how ours can be saved. Praise for How
Democracies Die What we desperately need is a sober dispassionate look at the current state of
affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt two of the most respected scholars in the field of
democracy studies offer just that.-The Washington Post Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their
mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and
international democratic crises in doing so they expand the conversation beyond Trump and
before him to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and
politics.-Ezra Klein Vox If you only read one book for the rest of the year read How
Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for
all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The
best commentary on our politics no contest.-Michael Morrell former Acting Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in
which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world and in ways that
are perfectly legal.-Fareed Zakaria CNN
