On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

¨We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves.¨ —Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

¨Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings. Put a copy in your pocket and one on your bedside table, and it will help you keep going for the next four years or however long it takes.¨ —Masha Gessen

¨Please read this book. So smart, so timely.¨ —George Saunders

¨Easily the most compelling volume among the early resistance literature. . . . A slim book that fits alongside your pocket Constitution and feels only slightly less vital. . . . Clarifying and unnerving. . . . A memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now.¨ —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post

¨As Timothy Snyder explains in his fine and frightening On Tyranny, a minority party now has near-total power and is therefore understandably frightened of awakening the actual will of the people.¨ —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

¨Snyder is superbly positioned to bring historical thinking to bear on the current political scene. . . . These unpretentious words remind us that political resistance isn’t a matter of action-movie heroics, but starts from a willingness to break from social expectations.¨ —Jeet Heer, The New Republic

¨The perfect clear-eyed antidote to Trump’s deliberate philistinism. . . . These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten.¨ —Tim Adams, The Guardian

¨On Tyranny demands to be read.¨ —The Forward

¨Bracing. . . . On Tyranny is a call to action. . . . A brisk read packed with lucid prose.¨ —Vox