Anne Applebaum, author portrait
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Anne Applebaum

After seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post, ANNE APPLEBAUM became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020. She is the author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including Autocracy, Inc., Twilight of Democracy, Red Famine, Iron Curtain, Between East and West, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between Poland, where her husband is foreign minister, and Washington, D.C.
Autocracy, Inc.
Twilight of Democracy
Red Famine
Between East and West
Iron Curtain
Gulag

Watch Anne Applebaum in Conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat at the 92nd Street Y

Books

Autocracy, Inc.
Twilight of Democracy
Red Famine
Between East and West
Iron Curtain
Gulag

Media

Watch Anne Applebaum in Conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat at the 92nd Street Y

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc.

From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.   i The Greed That Binds In the summer of 1967, Austrian and West German capitalists from the gas and steel industries met a group of Soviet communists in

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The 3 Penguin Random House Books Barack Obama Recommends You Read Before Election Day

Former President Barack Obama posted a message on his Facebook page on Friday, October 12, that began, “I wanted to share a handful of books and articles that speak to the current political moment and something I’ve been talking about around the country this fall.” Among the books that Obama has read and recommends that everyone consider reading before

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