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Anne Applebaum books: every book Anne Applebaum wrote and recommended
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Anne Applebaum appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Anne Applebaum
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Gulag
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Iron Curtain
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Red Famine
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Between East and West
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Twilight of Democracy
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Autocracy, Inc.
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Gulag Voices
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Anne Applebaum is an American journalist, historian and foreign-policy commentator. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013, and is married to Radosław Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister. During her appearances on various podcasts, Applebaum has recommended and discussed several notable books concerning economics, politics, and technology. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, she recommended Oliver Bullough's book Moneyland, describing it as an accessible resource for understanding the complex world of offshore finance, kleptocracy, and anonymous money. She also highlighted Moneyland during her appearance on The Ezra Klein Show, where she framed it as part of a trilogy of reading recommendations on money laundering. Alongside Bullough's work, she suggested Brooke Harrington's Offshore as the second title in this thematic grouping, followed by Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy as the final entry. Furthermore, while discussing online disinformation and censorship on The Ezra Klein Show, Applebaum recommended Renee DiResta's book Invisible Rulers, pointing listeners toward its detailed examination of digital influence operations and modern communication structures.
Books recommended by Anne Applebaum
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Moneyland
Moneyland by Oliver Bullough is a non-fiction investigation into the secret world of offshore finance, tax havens, and global kleptocracy where the super-wealthy hide their fortunes.
Recommended“It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.”
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American Kleptocracy
American Kleptocracy by Casey Michel is an investigative non-fiction book that exposes how the United States has paradoxically become a primary destination for laundering illicit fortunes generated by corrupt foreign leaders.
Recommended“and then as a third book to the trilogy I would say read American kleptocracy which is a book by Casey Michelle”
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Invisible Rulers
Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta is an insightful book examining how information spreads online and how niche propagandists manage to turn lies into reality and shape public opinion.
Recommended“i you know i can recommend to everybody who's listening to Renee desta's excellent book which is called invisible rulers which is about exactly this”
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Offshore
Offshore by Brooke Harrington is a concise sociological study that investigates the secretive world of wealth management and the global offshore financial industry.
Recommended“another kind of parallel book to read it's a very short book it's called offshore and it's by brooke Harrington”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Top Historian: How the Ukraine War is Going to End | The Jordan Harbinger Show | 2025-04-19 | 2 |
| Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails | The Ezra Klein Show | 2024-11-19 | 4 |
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And so that book Twilight of Democracy was a description I mean it starts with a description of a party I gave and then the book is about how people I knew had changed.”
“So this this has been a subject of a lot of my books. So that book Iron Curtain is about it.”
“Yeah, this this was actually one of the original insights that led me to write the book.”
“Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote”
“It's actually now out of power, but we did have it for several years. Um I saw it happen in Hungary, which is a country that I spent a lot of time in at one point. One of my books is partly about Hungary. I saw a version of it in Russia um 20 years uh earlier as well.”