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On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.
This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.
In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the original essays from On Tyranny with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about this war. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy here in the United States and around the world. Linking past and present, speaking only from notes, he guides the listener into the larger moral universe of On Tyranny.
This edition also includes On Tyranny, the bestselling essay collection that illustrates how various countries and governments have managed to protect against totalitarianism throughout history despite ever-present threats from many factions. Snyder cautions that unless we learn from these disruptive and disturbing occurrences, they will continue. This important call to arms and roadmap for resistance provides invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
“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.”—Masha Gessen, about On Tyranny
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- Destry Rides
- 2022-11-17
Listen to this...
And think about what we are facing. Timel Articulate and through...a credible author!
well done
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- LOUISE
- 2023-04-03
Food for thoughts
Absolutely to the point. Perfectly suited for the time we live in. À must.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-04-22
So very important to read NOW
Enormously informative, fascinating, and I could not recommend it more highly. Please listen to this if you care about democracy and humanity and want them to survive.Snyder is brilliant.
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- KL
- 2022-05-07
Brilliant
Timothy Snyder puts Russia’s war in Ukraine in context and draws lessons on what needs to be done to preserve democracy and freedom in the world at large. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
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- Robert
- 2022-08-21
an interesting way of writing history
great insights into 20th Century European history and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Goes right up to the first two weeks of the invasion.
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- Jiveen Liew
- 2023-06-30
Terrific!
This expanded edition is appropriate and pertinent in helping to understand the current war and geopolitical situation. It provides good historical facts and insight into what is going on now!
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- Helene Iliffe
- 2022-05-14
Don’t waste your time on this Democratic slanted fable.
This book was a extremely disappointing book. It was an outdated account of the 2016 election, nothing about CPC, nothing about coronavirus, nothing about the lies to support the 2020 election. It was biased and so far left, it was pathetic. No indication of such a limited perspective. You may left or right, but this book was a poor attempt at selling a Democratic stance. Disappointed to say the least.
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- Coup d'etat
- 2022-05-12
Good book, yet also disappointed
The original On Tyranny is 1 hr and 47 mins. If you have seen videos of Timothy Snyder on YouTube/other types who talk about tyranny, the 20 lessons of tyranny won't really be anything new. So the less you know about tyranny, the more informative you will find the 20 lessons.
As for the "Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine," I was thinking it would be an expansion on the first 20 lessons and how they apply, but it's more of a Ukrainian history lesson, which I found to be informative, but not what I was looking for.
If you want to save money or don't care for a history lesson on Ukraine, but the original On Tyranny; otherwise buy the updated version of On Tyranny.
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- R. Ward
- 2022-11-06
Trump Derangement Syndrome as academic essay.
If you believe Trump is evil, and half the West are secret Russian Nazis who must be opposed on everything at all times, this is the book for you.
Snyder is well read, eloquent, and paints narratives coherently. He just can't imagine that any moral being could see things differently than him.
Here is an elite who truly believes his own bias and hubris.
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