Author and historian Timothy Snyder is talking about the 20 lessons he outlines in his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 13, in the Reading Garden Lounge at the Main Library.
On Tyranny offers frustrated citizens practical advice from our past, adapted for the world of today’s ideas, for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
Snyder first introduced these lessons in a Facebook post in November 2016 just days after the U.S. presidential election. The post has since received more than a million views. On Tyranny is being published in 14 countries in addition to its simultaneous release in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
Snyder is signing copies his book after his talk. Books are available for purchase courtesy of Joseph-Beth Booksellers. For more information, call 513-369-6900 or visit www.CincinnatiLibrary.org/.
About the Author
Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
