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ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Timothy Snyder (summary)

Prologue It is a primary American tradition to consider history when our political order seems imperiled. The Founding Fathers drew upon examples from ancient Greece and Rome, and declared their independence from a British monarchy that the founders deemed “tyrannical.” In modern Europe, there were three major democratic movements: In the late nineteenth and earlyContinue reading “ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Timothy Snyder (summary)”