bbNATIONAL BESTSELLER -b How did our democracy go wrong This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer. b--Timothy Snyder, author of iOn Tyrannyib pThe Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.b pFrom the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. Ini Twilight of Democracy, i Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, iTwilight of Democracy iis a brilliant dissection of