Loved On Courage for its practical hope, moral clarity, and lessons from dissidents? How to Stand Up to a Dictator by takes you to the front line of one journalist's fight for truth.
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- A Nobel laureate's firsthand stand against authoritarian power
- Clear-eyed analysis of disinformation and democratic decline
- Press freedom defended through courage and collective action
- A political memoir that remains urgent, practical, and hopeful
If On Courage leaves you wanting to see its lessons tested under real pressure, How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the next step. Maria Ressa recounts how reporting facts in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines brought arrests, threats, and coordinated abuse, then traces those attacks back to a wider system in which social platforms reward lies and outrage. Her experience gives the source book's ideas about dissent a human scale: courage is not fearlessness, but the decision to defend a shared reality while power tries to erase it.
Ressa blends memoir with an investigation of the machinery that helps authoritarianism spread. The result is both more personal and more focused than On Courage, but it shares the same conviction that resistance grows through values, collaboration, and repeated acts of integrity. It is an especially strong follow-up for readers drawn to journalism, press freedom, and the practical defense of democracy.
Read it when you are ready to turn courage from an idea into a line you will hold.
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator is a similar next read for fans of On Courage by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer because it shares moral courage, dissent, press freedom, and disinformation while moving through political memoir and journalism.
What Readers Are Saying
"Outrageous, hopeful, and deeply inspiring. Ressa blends the personal and the informative very well." — Spens
What Readers Are Saying
"This book made me furious, frustrated, cry and feel hopeful. Maria Ressa is an inspiration." — Kimberley Anne
What Readers Are Saying
"This is a memoir of a brave crusader in a war against disinformation. It's unreal and heavy but admirable, inspiring, and powerful." — Shey
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