{"product_id":"on-tyranny-timothy-snyder","title":"On Tyranny (Timothy Snyder)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e #1 BESTSELLER **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BOOK TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING IN 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEuropean history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clarifying and unnerving... a memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now.' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Please read this book. So smart, so timely.' George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTimothy Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge towards counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians and populists. After a quarter century at Yale, he now teaches history at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and his books, which have been published in over forty languages, include \u003ci\u003eBloodlands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoad to Unfreedom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur Malady\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e On Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 128 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65808582279517,"sku":"K062965641","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6296564100001A.jpg?v=1788500922","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/on-tyranny-timothy-snyder","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}