Madeleine Albright’s latest book Fascism, A Warning, is mainly just that: An alarm bell for liberty lovers and “lowercase democrats” that the warning signs which anticipated the arrival of history’s most famous fascists are present and thriving in the United States and Europe.

Apart from being a love letter to democracy and liberalism, the book starts with a pocket history of the lives and rise to power of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and reviews the political and socio-economical context which led to their unraveling. Their stories are then contrasted with other examples of authoritarian leaders, whom she doesn’t qualify as all-out fascists, but rather as having ceded to some autocratic tendencies. Hugo Chavez, Slobodan Milosevic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Vladimir Putin make the list, as does President Trump, whom she qualifies as “the first anti-democratic president in modern American history.”