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From the Financial Times, US commentator, The Retreat of Western Liberalism is an extraordinarily sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed now face mortal danger

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From Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism offers a sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed are now in danger, with a new afterword for the paperback. Luce argues that today's the erosion of middle-class incomes has eaten away at liberal democratic consensus, resulting in today's crisis. We are continuing on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance towards society's economic losers, and complacency about our system's durability--attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unless the West can rekindle an economy that produces gains for the majority of its people, its political liberties may be doomed. The West's quasi-religious faith in the linear progression of history teaches us to take democracy for granted. Reality tells us something troublingly different. The most mortal threat to the Western idea of progress comes from within. Combining on-the-ground reporting with intelligent synthesis of the literature and economic analysis, Luce makes a powerful statement about the weakening of Western hegemony and gives a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to defend them from the multiple onslaughts they face in the coming years.

Author Biography

Edward Luce is a graduate from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He worked as a speech writer for the treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, worked as the South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times, and is based in Washington DC as the Financial Times Washington columnist and commentator. He was formerly its Washington bureau chief. He is also the author of In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern Indiaand Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent.

Review

One of the Washington Post's 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2017, an Amazon Top 100 book of the year, and a Financial Times and Economist best book of the year "Timely and informed, providing an important overview of the dynamics in an increasingly interconnected and fragmented planet . . . In his prescient 2012 book, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent, Luce uncannily anticipated the politics of resentment and the bitter fights over immigration that would fuel 'Brexit' and last year's American election. And in this new book, he lucidly expounds on the erosion of the West's middle classes, the dysfunction among its political and economic elites and the consequences for America and the world."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Many around the globe sense a systemic crisis. To understand the nature of this crisis, we could not find a better guide than Edward Luce's The Retreat of Western Liberalism . . . Luce writes in fluid prose, moving from a telling statistic to a striking quotation. Throughout, one is struck by his command of the material and the activity of his prose--he is unsparing in his condemnation of the elites who didn't see this coming."--Fareed Zakaria, New York Times Book Review "Mr. Luce offers a useful wake-up call to elites, urging them to focus on the very real struggles of America's besieged middle class before we all lose the freedom and democracy we cherish . . . [A] concise, accessible and valuable work."--Lawrence J. Haas, Wall Street Journal "What the book offers is . . . a panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read. Luce's project is to explain what the recent dark turn in Western politics--the rise of ultranationalism, populist demagoguery, cultural insularity, and social unrest--has to do with global economics. It's a story of trade balances and technological disruption, but also a withering dismantling of Western liberalism's faith in progress."--Elias Muhanna, New Yorker, "What we're reading this summer" "A brisk, timely survey . . . Mr. Luce is a shrewd observer . . . At rapid pace and with telling statistics, Mr. Luce . . . gives a knowledgeable tour through the unmapped terrain in which Western politicians and governments must now operate."--Economist "Edward Luce provides a terrifying view of the challenges facing the West. We have to hope that his prophecies are self denying--something that is more likely if his penetrating analysis gets the wide attention it richly deserves."--Lawrence Summers "Read this book: In the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing, and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the smartest journalists working today, and his perceptions are priceless."--Jane Mayer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dark Money "The challenges to the West are outlined in detail--and they mainly come from within . . . For Luce, the combination of rising income inequality, vanishing economic mobility and distant technocracy has led to our moment's populist resurgence."--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "A head-clearing attempt to explore the underlying disorder and distemper in liberal democracy, in America and throughout the West . . . As this author states repeatedly, Trump is merely a symptom, not a cause, of this disorder. For readers looking for context, this primer is a good start."--Carla Seaquist, Huffington Post "An informative look at the current state of world politics and economics . . . It's also a thought-provoking warning that history is not guaranteed."--Chris Schluep, Omnivoracious "Important . . . Through his deep reporting and clear-headed analysis, Luce explains popular frustration with liberalism, and the resurgence of nationalism."--National Book Review, "5 hot books" "No one was more prescient about the economic malaise and popular resentment that has hit the United States than Edward Luce in his previous book, Time to Start Thinking. His new book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, broadens that picture to cover the Western world. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the waves of populism and nationalism we face today."--Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance "What is the future of Western liberal democracy? How did it get into its current mess, and how will those origins shape its forthcoming evolution? This volume is the very best guide for starting to grapple with those questions."--Tyler Cowen, Founder of Marginal Revolution University "In just 200 pages, [Luce] surveys economics, history, electoral politics, and international relations to paint a vision of the planet that's as worrying as it is realistic."--VICE "Luce's well-crafted book locates the origin of the crisis in declining economic opportunities available to Western middle classes."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "[The Retreat of Western Liberalism] is really, really important . . . We strongly encourage you to buy it."--David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy's The E.R. podcast "Luce does a masterful job of describing the contours of the rise of illiberal democracy in the west."--Benjamin Knoll, New York Journal of Books "Beautifully written."--Times (UK) "The great merit of Luce's brisk, pointed and fascinating book . . . is that it is far more than a disappointed liberal's angry tirade. His achievement it to put the rise of antiestablishment populism in a broader global economic context . . . In particular, he is memorably and rightly scathing about the self-regard of the Davos elite."--Literary Review (UK) "Timely . . . [Luce's] writing has a vigour and sweep all too absent in the deadly prose of social scientists."--Financial Times (UK) "A succinct and powerful accounting of the global failure of the political left and the subsequent revolt of the people against a system that they see, not without reason, as having failed and abandoned them."--Toronto Star "Incisive . . . Luce combines some hard, and unsettling, facts about the 'stagnant' state of Western economies and societies, with perceptive, even provocative insights into their implications."--Vikas Datta, Business Standard "Timely and thoughtful . . . A clear-eyed lament of liberalism's decline, and America stepping back and turning inward."--American Conservative "Fantastic. I recommend that everyone buys it."--James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute

Review Quote

One of the Washington Post ''s 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2017 An Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year "Timely and informed, providing an important overview of the dynamics in an increasingly interconnected and fragmented planet . . . In his prescient 2012 book, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent , Luce uncannily anticipated the politics of resentment and the bitter fights over immigration that would fuel ''Brexit'' and last year''s American election. And in this new book, he lucidly expounds on the erosion of the West''s middle classes, the dysfunction among its political and economic elites and the consequences for America and the world." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Many around the globe sense a systemic crisis. To understand the nature of this crisis, we could not find a better guide than Edward Luce''s The Retreat of Western Liberalism . . . Luce writes in fluid prose, moving from a telling statistic to a striking quotation. Throughout, one is struck by his command of the material and the activity of his prose--he is unsparing in his condemnation of the elites who didn''t see this coming." --Fareed Zakaria, New York Times Book Review "Mr. Luce offers a useful wake-up call to elites, urging them to focus on the very real struggles of America''s besieged middle class before we all lose the freedom and democracy we cherish . . . [A] concise, accessible and valuable work." --Lawrence J. Haas, Wall Street Journal "What the book offers is . . . a panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read. Luce''s project is to explain what the recent dark turn in Western politics--the rise of ultranationalism, populist demagoguery, cultural insularity, and social unrest--has to do with global economics. It''s a story of trade balances and technological disruption, but also a withering dismantling of Western liberalism''s faith in progress." --Elias Muhanna, New Yorker , "What we''re reading this summer" "A brisk, timely survey . . . Mr. Luce is a shrewd observer . . . At rapid pace and with telling statistics, Mr. Luce . . . gives a knowledgeable tour through the unmapped terrain in which Western politicians and governments must now operate." -- Economist "Edward Luce provides a terrifying view of the challenges facing the West. We have to hope that his prophecies are self denying--something that is more likely if his penetrating analysis gets the wide attention it richly deserves." --Lawrence Summers "Read this book: In the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing, and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the smartest journalists working today, and his perceptions are priceless." --Jane Mayer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dark Money "The challenges to the West are outlined in detail--and they mainly come from within . . . For Luce, the combination of rising income inequality, vanishing economic mobility and distant technocracy has led to our moment''s populist resurgence." --Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "A head-clearing attempt to explore the underlying disorder and distemper in liberal democracy, in America and throughout the West . . . As this author states repeatedly, Trump is merely a symptom, not a cause, of this disorder. For readers looking for context, this primer is a good start." --Carla Seaquist, Huffington Post "An informative look at the current state of world politics and economics . . . It''s also a thought-provoking warning that history is not guaranteed." --Chris Schluep, Omnivoracious "Important . . . Through his deep reporting and clear-headed analysis, Luce explains popular frustration with liberalism, and the resurgence of nationalism." -- National Book Review , "5 hot books" "No one was more prescient about the economic malaise and popular resentment that has hit the United States than Edward Luce in his previous book, Time to Start Thinking . His new book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism , broadens that picture to cover the Western world. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the waves of populism and nationalism we face today." --Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance "What is the future of Western liberal democracy? How did it get into its current mess, and how will those origins shape its forthcoming evolution? This volume is the very best guide for starting to grapple with those questions." --Tyler Cowen, Founder of Marginal Revolution University "In just 200 pages, [Luce] surveys economics, history, electoral politics, and international relations to paint a vision of the planet that''s as worrying as it is realistic." -- VICE "[ The Retreat of Western Liberalism ] is really, really important . . . We strongly encourage you to buy it." --David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy ''s The E.R. podcast "Luce does a masterful job of describing the contours of the rise of illiberal democracy in the west." --Benjamin Knoll, New York Journal of Books "Beautifully written." -- Times (UK) "The great merit of Luce''s brisk, pointed and fascinating book . . . is that it is far more than a disappointed liberal''s angry tirade. His achievement it to put the rise of antiestablishment populism in a broader global economic context . . . In particular, he is memorably and rightly scathing about the self-regard of the Davos elite." -- Literary Review (UK) "Timely . . . [Luce''s] writing has a vigour and sweep all too absent in the deadly prose of social scientists." -- Financial Times (UK) "A succinct and powerful accounting of the global failure of the political left and the subsequent revolt of the people against a system that they see, not without reason, as having failed and abandoned them." -- Toronto Star "Incisive . . . Luce combines some hard, and unsettling, facts about the ''stagnant'' state of Western economies and societies, with perceptive, even provocative insights into their implications." --Vikas Datta, Business Standard "Timely and thoughtful . . . A clear-eyed lament of liberalism''s decline, and America stepping back and turning inward." -- American Conservative "Fantastic. I recommend that everyone buys it." --James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute

Excerpt from Book

In Moscow's view, history is back and nothing is inevitable, least of all liberal democracy. Others, in Beijing, Ankara, Cairo, Caracas, and even Budapest, share Russia's hostility to Western notions of progress, as do growing numbers of apostates in the West. Are they wrong? This book is my attempt to answer that question. Let me declare now that nothing is preordained. To a person whose life has coincided with the rise of democracy, the spread of market economics and signs that the world had finally subscribed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (even if much of it is paid only in lip service - hypocrisy, as they say, being the compliment vice pays to virtue), merely to pose the question is troubling enough. Wasn't that debate settled a long time ago? Isn't the march of human freedom unstoppable? Doesn't the whole world crave to be Western? We can no longer have any confidence in that. It was remarkably arrogant to believe the rest of the world would passively adopt our script. Those who still believe in the inevitable triumph of the Western model might ask themselves whether it is faith, rather than facts, that fuels their worldview. We must cast a sceptical eye on what wehave learned never to question. Our sanity may be tested in the process.

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One of the Washington Post 's 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2017. An Amazon Top 100 book of the year. A Financial Times and Economist best book of the year. Selected for a Kindle Daily Deal in January 2018. In the run-up to hardcover publication, Luce published an op-ed on the British election in the New York Times (international edition and online). The Retreat of Western Liberalism was mentioned by David Remnick in his New Yorker piece on Trump's first 100 days and in a David Brooks New York Times column, as well as in the New York Times 's "12 New Books We Recommend This Week" piece. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. An Amazon Best Book of the Month in the history category for June 2017. One of Amazon's best books of the year so far for 2017. Edward Luce took a sabbatical from his post as the chief U.S. columnist at the Financial Times to write this book, which we are publishing within the Trump administration's first six months. The Retreat of Western Liberalism gives an important and timely interpretative framework for major recent events, including Trump's election, Brexit, and the authoritarian version of national destiny which is staging a powerful global comeback. Luce takes the historical long view in this book, looking at China and India's pre-industrial world prominence; the rise of western economies, values, and an almost holy vision of progress; and the current "rise of the rest" which has corresponded to a decline in western economic and political superiority. Luce's 2012 book Time to Start Thinking was reviewed on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review and was named an Editors' Choice. It was widely and positively reviewed in major news and business outlets, and we can expect the same level of coverage for the new book. Luce (@EdwardGLuce) has a substantial Twitter platform, with 13,000 followers.

Details ISBN080212819X Author Edward Luce Short Title RETREAT OF WESTERN LIBERALISM Pages 256 Language English ISBN-10 080212819X ISBN-13 9780802128195 Format Paperback Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-04-24 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2018-04-24 NZ Release Date 2018-04-24 US Release Date 2018-04-24 UK Release Date 2018-04-24 Publisher Black Cat Imprint Black Cat DEWEY 320.51091821 Audience General We've got this

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