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Living author
Timothy Snyder
A historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the twentieth century's catastrophes, whose short books on the present have reached an enormous readership. On Tyranny distills twenty lessons from the century's collapses into a pocket-sized civic handbook. On Freedom, written partly in wartime Ukraine, makes the affirmative case for what freedom is and what sustains it. He writes history as instruction for citizens who would rather not repeat it.
In the library
On Freedom
The affirmative sequel to On Tyranny: not what to resist, but what to build. Snyder argues that freedom is not merely the absence of interference but...
On Tyranny
Twenty lessons from the twentieth century, pocket-sized and urgent, the most-carried civic book of the era. Snyder distilled the hard-won knowledge of how free societies fall...