Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady, and On Freedom. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play, and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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“We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves
us with no illusions about ourselves.”—Svetlana Alexievich, Winner
of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“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.”—Masha Gessen
“Please read this book. So smart, so timely.”—George Saunders
“Easily 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.”—Carlos Lozada, The
Washington Post
“Snyder 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.”—Daniel W. Drezner, The New York Times Book Review
“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.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
“Snyder is superbly positioned to bring historical thinking to bear
on the current political scene. . . . These unpretentious words
remind us that political resistance isn’t a matter of action-movie
heroics, but starts from a willingness to break from social
expectations.” —Jeet Heer, The New Republic
“The perfect clear-eyed antidote to Trump’s 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.”—Tim Adams, The
Guardian
“On Tyranny demands to be read.”—The Forward
“The 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.”—Darryl Holter, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Bracing . . . On Tyranny is a call to action. . . . A brisk read
packed with lucid prose.”—Vox
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