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Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny (2017) 4 stars

In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the …

On Tyranny

4 stars

Short, punchy, to the point, and necessary. Since Snyder is a European historian, he necessarily draws his examples from Europe, but you don't have to reach that far back in U.S. history to think of analogous circumstances. His first takeaway is crucial: do not obey in advance.