The Road to Autocracy: How We Lost-and Can Recover-Our Democracy

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s sweeping, six-decade reckoning with how America’s powerful elites fractured the nation opening the road to autocracy, and how We the People can bring our democracy back from the brink.

American democracy stands at a precipice. In this urgent, authoritative book, veteran reporter Hedrick Smith asks how a nation founded on the separation of powers arrived at the brink of one-man rule.

What marks Smith’s book apart from other democracy-in-crisis titles is h...