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On tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century

The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.

Main Author:	Snyder, Timothy (Author)
Other Authors:	Krug, Nora (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	California : Ten Speed Press, [2021]
Edition:	First graphic edition.
Subjects:	Totalitarianism. Despotism. History, Modern > 20th century. Political ethics. Political culture > United States. Democracy > United States.

Summary:	The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
Physical Description:	127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
ISBN:	9781984859150 1984859153 9781984860392 1984860399
Author Notes:	Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of the bestselling books Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning . His work has received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former contributing editor at The New Republic . Nora Krug is the author of the graphic memoir Belonging and an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in The New York Times , The Guardian , and Le Monde diplomatique . Her short-form graphic biography, Kamikaze , about a surviving Japanese World War II pilot, was included in editions of Best American Comics and Best American Nonrequired Reading . She is the recipient of fellowships from the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and of medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club.

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