Everything is at Stake: The Fate of America and what it means for the rest of us

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A short 'warning from history' book that uses America's past to explain and reconfigure the present crisis facing the US, in the vein of Tim Snyder's On Tyranny & Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy. 'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible and will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial Times In Everything is at Stake, US Conservative Robert Kagan diagnoses the present crisis by explaining how America got here, and will paint a crystal-clear, albeit terrifying, picture of what could happen next. Rich in parallels between the past and the present, combining palpable outrage at what America has become with an impassioned defence of what is at stake. This book explains the current political climate in the US better than anything else you'll read, from a lifelong conservative who has formally disowned the party, thanks to its support of Trump. From race and populism to fascism and the future of conservatism, to the real prospects of a second term for Donald Trump, Robert Kagan tells us just how scared we should be as the United States journeys through its biggest political crisis in over a hundred years.

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More than anyone I know, Eduardo Briceno has devoted himself to bringing academic research on mindsets into the everyday lives of learners of all ages. His passion and optimism are contagious, and in every interaction, I come away inspired. * Angela Duckworth *

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Robert Kagan is the Senior Fellow at Washington think tank Brookings; a contributing columnist at The Washington Post; and the author of several NYT bestsellers including The World America Made (Knopf, 2012), Return of History and the End of Dreams (Knopf, 2008), Dangerous Nation (Knopf 2006). Politico Magazine named Kagan one of the 'Politico 50' in 2016. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and holds a doctorate in American history from American University.