On Tyranny Expanded Audio Edition, Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny Expanded Audio Edition, Timothy Snyder
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition
Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine

Author: Timothy Snyder

Narrator: Timothy Snyder

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

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

About The Author

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of The Road to Unfreedom, On Tyranny, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. His work has received the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on October 09, 2019

As Duncan Black ("Atrios" at Eschaton) phrased it a few days ago, “I veer from ‘haha Trump's a big dumdum’ to ‘oh shit we're all going to die.’” Is Trump a clown or an autocrat? A buffoon, or a despot-in-training? I can’t give you a definitive answer, but I am sure of one thing: for those worried abo......more

Goodreads review by Peter on May 15, 2025

Post-Script: May 2025 - The "Timothy Snyder flees America" postscript. Again, this review got me banned from Amazon. It may seem pretty fascist - in terms of culture at least - for someone to be censored based on their speech, but that is what happened. So, you can imagine how I view the irony of Timo......more