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DESCRIPTION:Join Masha Gessen, author of "Surviving Autocracy", in conversation with 
 interviewer, Anand Giridharadas, on the destruction of politics under 
 Trump.\n\nDate and Time: Tue, October 20, 2020 @ 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM 
 PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surviving-autocracy-masha-gessen-with-anand-giridharadas-tickets-122760571173\n\nJoin 
 Russian-American author, journalist, and activist Masha Gessen, whose 
 latest book is Surviving Autocracy, just ahead of the final 2020 United 
 States Presidential Debate.\n\nWritten after the 2016 US presidential 
 election, and drawing on what they had seen happen under Vladimir Putin, 
 Gessen's Surviving Autocracy is an analysis of the destruction the Trump 
 administration has waged on our institutions, and our very sense of 
 identity, and sketches out a dark vision of a nation in which a fragile 
 democracy can quickly erode into one-man rule.\n\nIn advance of the 2020 
 election, they continue to sound the alarm over the "creeping 
 normalization" of this administration's efforts to tamp down press access. 
 With an analysis that, "the Democratic Party lies in ruins, and the 
 Republican Party lies prostrate,” Gessen predicts that the threat of 
 autocracy will remain no matter who is elected, given the deterioration of 
 the US’s political culture: "If Trump disappears tomorrow, we're actually 
 looking at a vastly changed political landscape and a real crisis in 
 American democracy."\n\n***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to 
 the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be 
 recorded and have live 
 captioning.***\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\nSpeaker:\n\nMasha 
 Gessen\nMasha Gessen is the author of eleven books and a staff writer for 
 the New Yorker. In addition to Surviving Autocracy (2020), their recent 
 books include The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 
 (2017), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The 
 Road to an American Tragedy (2015), about the Boston Marathon bombers; and 
 The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). Gessen 
 has written extensively about Russia, autocracy, LGBT rights, Vladimir 
 Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, and, on a parallel track, has been a 
 science journalist, writing about AIDS, medical genetics, and mathematics; 
 famously, they were dismissed as editor of the Russian popular-science 
 magazine Vokrug Sveta for refusing to send a reporter to observe Putin 
 hang-gliding with the Siberian cranes. Gessen is a Distinguished Writer in 
 Residence at Bard College and the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, 
 and Nieman Fellowships, as well as the Hitchens Prize and the Overseas 
 Press Club Award for Best Commentary. After more than twenty years as a 
 journalist and editor in Moscow, they have been living in New York since 
 2013.\n\nModerator:\n\nAnand Giridharadas \nAnand Giridharadas is an 
 editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a 
 visiting scholar at New York University. He is the author of Winners Take 
 All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World; The True American: Murder and 
 Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant's campaign to spare from Death Row 
 the white supremacist who tried to kill him; and India Calling: An Intimate 
 Portrait of a Nation's Remaking. 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/18837698.php
SUMMARY:"Surviving Autocracy": Jounalist Masha Gessen on the Destruction of America Under Trump
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