Read it carefully and be on the lookout for symptoms.” -Daniel W. Approach this short book the same you would a medical pamphlet warning about an infectious disease. It is impossible to read aphorisms like ‘post-truth is pre-fascism’ and not feel a small chill about the current state of the Republic. A memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now.” -Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post “Snyder knows this subject cold. A slim book that fits alongside your pocket Constitution and feels only slightly less vital. So smart, so timely.” -George Saunders “Easily the most compelling volume among the early resistance literature. 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.” -Masha Gessen “Please read this book. 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. 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.Ī Washington Post Notable Book “We are rapidly ripening for fascism. 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. 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.”-Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. A “bracing” ( Vox ) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” ( The New York Times ) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief.To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click "Continue without accepting" to reject, or "Customize Cookies" to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse was #1 in the category, selling nearly 25,000 copies.įor the first two weeks of 2021, unit sales of print books were up 23.9% over the comparable period in 2020.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. The adult fiction category also had a great week, with print unit sales up almost 30% over 2020. Two educational titles led the way: Crystal Radtke’s My First Learn to Write Workbook sold over 7,000 copies, and Big Preschool Workbook sold 6,400 copies. Juvenile nonfiction sales rose 28.8% over 2020. Juvenile fiction sales rose 30.7% in the week led by Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle, which sold just over 28,000 copies, and Dav Pilkey’s Cat Kid Comic Club, which sold nearly 22,000 copies. Kendi was the top seller, selling more than 4,100 copies. In YA nonfiction, Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Lockhart also had a solid week, with sales just topping 17,000 copies. The release of Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas helped to lift sales in YA fiction, selling nearly 18,000 copies. The biggest gains, however, came in the young adult categories, with fiction up 47.6% and nonfiction rising 46.9%.
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