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Moiss Nam's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world.In his bestselling book The End of Power, Moiss Nam examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Nam turns to the trends, conditions, technologies and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. He concentrates on the three "P"s -- populism, polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today's autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways.
About the Author
Moisés Naím has been called "one of the world's leading thinkers" (Prospect Magazine) and has been ranked among the top 100 global thought leaders by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland. He is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally syndicated columnist and a best-selling author of 14 books, including "The End of Power" and "Illicit". In 2013, "The End of Power" was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year. Naím recently published his first novel "Two Spies in Caracas" . In 2011, he received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Journalism award and, in 2018, won an Emmy award for his television program "Efecto Naim". He was also the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Under his leadership, the magazine won the National Magazine award for General Excellence three times and became one of the world's most influential publications in international affairs. Naím has served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela's Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been professor and dean of IESA, Venezuela's main business school. He currently lives with his family in Washington, DC.
