{"id":20845,"date":"2021-12-16T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=20845"},"modified":"2021-12-16T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:46:41","slug":"book-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/book-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1484763736i\/33917107.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/243930.Timothy_Snyder\">Timothy Snyder<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America\u2019s turn towards authoritarianism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books&nbsp;<em>Bloodlands<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Black Earth<\/em>, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With&nbsp;<em>Twenty Lessons<\/em>, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, \u201cAmericans 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Twenty Lessons<\/em>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America\u2019s 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&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/book-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}