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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
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Description for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Paperback. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW; JPHV; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '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' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows ... Read more
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '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' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847924889
SKU
V9781847924889
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About Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: his most recent book, On Tyranny, was an international bestseller. Previous books include Black Earth, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the annual prize of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee; ... Read more
Reviews for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump... powerful.
Sarah Ditum
New Statesman
Snyder's beautifully weighted book is the perfect clear-eyed antidote to [Trump's] deliberate philistinism ... Always measured in their observation, these 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all ... Read more
Sarah Ditum
New Statesman
Snyder's beautifully weighted book is the perfect clear-eyed antidote to [Trump's] deliberate philistinism ... Always measured in their observation, these 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all ... Read more