Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Snyder is superbly positioned to bring historical thinking to bear on the current political scene.
"Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. As Timothy Snyder explains in his fine and frightening On Tyranny, a minority party now has near-total power and is therefore understandably frightened of awakening the actual will of the people. This is the long view we all need, given to us right now by a leading expert. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.19 Rating details 55,879 ratings 7,180 reviews A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism. Linking past and present, and speaking only from notes, Snyder delivers an important call to arms and roadmap for resistance, providing invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy around the world.
In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Timothy Snyder combines the original On Tyranny (2017) - twenty lessons on how history can instruct our response to the rise of tyranny around the world today - with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia's war on Ukraine.
This edition includes the bestselling original On Tyranny, read by the author. The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.
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