This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves. Review Quotes A Washington Post Notable Book We are rapidly ripening for fascism. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present. On Tyranny 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. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century.
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their .īook Synopsis #1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. About the Book -The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy.