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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) information for surviving and resisting America’s flip in direction of authoritarianism, from “a rising public mental unafraid to make daring connections between previous and current” (The New York Instances)
“Timothy Snyder causes with unparalleled readability, throwing the previous and future into sharp reduction. He has written the uncommon form of ebook that may be learn in a single sitting however will maintain you coming again to assist regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen
The Founding Fathers tried to guard us from the risk they knew, the tyranny that overcame historical democracy. Right now, our political order faces new threats, not in contrast to the totalitarianism of the 20th century. We aren’t any wiser than the Europeans who noticed democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one benefit is that we’d be taught from their expertise.
On Tyranny is a name to arms and a information to resistance, with invaluable concepts for the way we will protect our freedoms within the unsure years to return.
