About Timothy Snyder
American historian (b. 1969), professor at Yale and a leading scholar of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. The author of Bloodlands and Black Earth, Snyder reached a mass audience with On Tyranny, becoming a prominent public voice on the threats facing contemporary democracy.
Books by Timothy Snyder
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On Freedom
Snyder's philosophical counterpart to On Tyranny, arguing that Americans have mistaken freedom for the mere absence of government when real freedom is something we build together. Drawing on history, his own travels, an…
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
A pocket-sized handbook for defending democracy, distilled from the history of how twentieth-century Europe fell to fascism and communism. In twenty short, practical lessons — 'do not obey in advance,' 'defend instituti…
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