Book jacket image for How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

Harper

9780063257511

STARRED REVIEW

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Maria Ressa’s book is a political history of the Philippines and an intimate memoir, but it’s also a warning to democracies everywhere: Authoritarianism is a threat to us all.

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Review of ‘How to Stand Up to a Dictator’

In How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, journalist Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, gives readers a riveting inside view of what it’s like to be a dissident fighting authoritarianism. This engrossing book is a political history of the Philippines and an intimate…

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