On Tyranny
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a 2021 Politics & Current Affairs book written by TED speaker Timothy Snyder, paired here with the talk they gave.
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
The paired TED talk
Is democracy doomed? The global fight for our future (2023), the TED talk by Timothy Snyder.