<b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b>''A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world¿ <i><b>The Times</b></i><b>To be born American in the late twentieth century </b><b>was to take the fact of a particular kind of American </b><b>exceptionalism as granted ¿ a state of nature arrived at </b><b>after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, </b><b>this assumption would come crashing down.</b><b>After the fall, we must determine what </b><b>it means to be American again.</b>In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outwards. Over the next three years, he travelled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition le
