Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b>Look out for Masha Gessen's new book???<i>The Future is Histor</i>y?? coming October 2017</b><br><b><br>From journalism's bravest?? Masha Gessen?whose regular appearances on Samantha Bee?? Rachel Maddow?? the pages of the?<i>New York Times</i>?? and more have been a beacon of clarity in our troubled times -- comes a portrait of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. ?</b><i><br></i></b><br>?????? In 1999?? the ??Family?? surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin?? with very little governmental or administrative experience?he??d been deputy mayor of St. Petersbur