On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

A fascist historian provides advice on enduring and opposing America's shift towards tyranny.

Millions of Americans awoke on November 9th to the unthinkable: Donald Trump's victory to the presidency. Unexpectedly, a highly hated candidate for president throughout history won the electoral college, bringing a man who openly disdained democratic institutions and norms to the pinnacle of authority.

Among the most well-known Holocaust historians is Timothy Snyder. He has meticulously examined the circumstances and principles that made Hitler and Stalin possible to climb to power and carry out their disastrous programmes in his books Bloodlands and Black Earth. Snyder uses Twenty Lessons to provide optimism for the twenty-first century by drawing from the worst moments of the twentieth. Americans are no smarter than the Europeans who seen democracy give way to fascism, Nazism, and communism, the author claims. The only benefit we have is the possibility of learning from their mistakes.

With priceless suggestions for safeguarding our liberties in the next unsettling years, Twenty Lessons serves as both a manual for resistance and a cry to arms.