{"product_id":"on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-paperback-snyder","title":"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century [Paperback] Snyder,","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\n\n\n#1New York TimesBestseller A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.\nThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.\n\n\nOn Tyrannyis a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.\n\n\n\"Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present.\" The New York Times\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA Washington Post Notable Book\n\n\"We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves.\"\nSvetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\n\n\"Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings. Put a copy in your pocket and one on your bedside table, and it will help you keep going for the next four years or however long it takes.\" \nMasha Gessen\"Please read this book. So smart, so timely.\"\nGeorge Saunders\n\nEasily the most compelling volume among the early resistance literature. . . . A slim book that fits alongside your pocket Constitution and feels only slightly less vital. . . . Clarifying and unnerving. . . . A memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now.\nCarlos Lozada, The Washington PostSnyder knows this subject cold. . . . It is impossible to read aphorisms like post-truth is pre-fascism and not feel a small chill about the current state of the Republic. . . . Approach this short book the same you would a medical pamphlet warning about an infectious disease. Read it carefully and be on the lookout for symptoms. \nDaniel W. Drezner,The New York Times Book Review\n\n\"As Timothy Snyder explains in his fine and frightening\nOn Tyranny, a minorityparty now has near-total power and is therefore understandably frightened of awakening the actual will of the people.\"\nAdam Gopnik, The New Yorker\n\nSnyder is superbly positioned to bring historical thinking to bear on the current political scene. . . . These unpretentious words remind us that political resistance isnt a matter of action-movie heroics, but starts from a willingness to break from social expectations. \nJeet Heer,The New Republic\n\nThe perfect clear-eyed antidote to Trumps deliberate philistinism. . . . These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten. \nTim Adams, The Guardian\n\n\nOn Tyranny demands to be read.\nThe ForwardThe manifesto we need. . . . Snyder detects dangerous trends in American politics that may be less visible to most citizens who cannot believe that our country, with its system of checks and balances, could succumb to illiberalism or authoritarianism. \nDarryl Holter, Los Angeles Review of Books\n\nBracing. . . .\nOn Tyranny is a call to action. . . . A brisk read packed with lucid prose.\nVox\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nTimothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of\nBloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and\nBlack Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.\n\n\nExcerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n\n\n1\n\nDo not obey in advance.\n\nMost of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFEATURES\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n            \u003cli\u003eTIM DUGGAN\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tim Duggan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46567232831711,"sku":"S29059442","price":13.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0581\/9701\/6765\/files\/41kNpuM4TjL._SL500.jpg?v=1733718024","url":"https:\/\/speedmerchant65.myshopify.com\/products\/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-paperback-snyder","provider":"The Hungry Bookworm \u0026 Speedmerchant65","version":"1.0","type":"link"}