{"id":37366,"date":"2024-10-31T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37366"},"modified":"2024-10-31T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T04:48:28","slug":"book-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/book-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Timothy Snyder<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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 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<\/em> and 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 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

Twenty Lessons<\/em> 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

About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Timothy Snyder<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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