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[On Tyranny : Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century]
Written by  : Timothy Snyder:
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting
America’s turn towards authoritarianism.

On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the
impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president.
Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential
candidates in history had swept the electoral college,
elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms
and institutions to the height of power.

Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians
of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth,
he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled
the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their
catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws
from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide
hope for the twenty-first.
As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the
Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism,
Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that
we might learn from their experience.”

Twenty Lessons is 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


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About Author:

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University
and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences.
He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997,
where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships
in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship
at Harvard.

His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as
History and Warning, published in September 2015
by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands:
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi
and Soviet mass killing
on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times
bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic,
The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph,
and the New Statesman, it has won twelve awards including
the Emerson Prize in the Humanities,
a Literature Award from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European
Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in
Political Thought.
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Books characteristics:
Print length
128 pages
Language
English
Publication date
February 28, 2017
Dimensions
4.37 x 0.43 x 6.23 inches
ISBN-10
0804190119
ISBN-13
978-0804190114