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From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner, a gripping, deeply contextual look at the development of political warfare between the US and Russia from the Stalin era to today

With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare—conflict waged without weapons—over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and around the world, and yet the US has not engaged its own political warfare methods in defense, even as our own justice department has concluded unequivocally that Russia influenced the 2016 election.

To get to the heart of what's at stake and find potential solutions, Weiner examines long-running...