The book’s format seems designed to connect with readers habituated to skimming social media feeds and to ease them into engaging with serious issues.
Where it falls short is mainly in its advice on opposing tyranny. Its strength is in highlighting important features and mechanisms of the move toward dictatorship. But no matter what you think of Trump, you can learn much from Snyder’s book. Clearly Snyder, a historian at Yale, was impelled to write the book in the wake of Trump’s rise to power, a development he views as alarming. This short book is very much a product of the moment. Timothy Snyder’s incisive book, On Tyranny, aims to distill enduring lessons from the twentieth century on the rise and functioning of tyranny - and to help us preserve our freedom. Would you recognize the signs of an incipient tyranny? Would you know how to oppose it? By Timothy Snyder (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
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