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Yale Professor Discusses Best-Selling Book ‘On Tyranny’
Timothy Snyder’s path to the best-seller lists began with a viral post-election Facebook post
turn for guidance about what to do.”
By Hillel Italie
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Timothy Snyder
would have preferred a different path
to the best-seller lists.
The Yale University professor and
scholar of European history, whose
books include “Bloodlands: Europe
Between Hitler and Stalin,” was so
alarmed by the election of Donald
Trump last fall that soon after he post-
ed a list on Facebook of “20 Lessons
from the 20th Century on How to Sur-
vive in Trump’s America.” His advice
ranged from “Be kind to our language”
to “Believe in truth” to “Do not obey in
advance.”
The list went viral and the Penguin
Random House imprint Tim Duggan
Books released an expanded, pock-
et-sized edition of Snyder’s warnings
that quickly reached high on Amazon.
com’s best-seller list. With more than
100,000 copies in print, “On Tyran-
ny: Twenty Lessons from the Twen-
tieth Century” has become a guide
for many worried about democracy
under Trump’s administration, a non-
fiction counterpart to such dystopian
best-sellers as “1984” and “The Hand-
maid’s Tale.”
During a recent interview with The
Associated Press, Snyder spoke of why
he posted the initial list, what concerns
him now and what he’d like to see hap-
pen.
On His Initial Facebook Posting
“What I thought I should try to do as
On The Strength Of American Democ-
racy
“How long has America really been a
democracy, in the sense of people being
allowed to vote? I would say, circa 1965,
Civil Rights Act? If not all of your citi-
zens can vote you’re not really a democ-
racy. So were talking about half a cen-
tury, tops. In addition to that, we’re not
a democracy now, in the very import-
ant sense that there are voter suppres-
sion laws, there is an electoral college,
quickly as possible, and economical-
ly as possible, concisely as possible,
was pass on what I think I understand
about regime change, in the negative
sense, from democracy to authoritari-
anism. And (to pass on) what I think I’ve
learned from people who are smarter
than me and who have experienced
more than me, in Europe in the 20th
century, about what that looks like and
how it should be resisted.
“And my sense, which has been con-
firmed in the weeks and months that
followed, is that many Americans un-
derstand something strange has hap-
pened, but don’t quite know where to
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On What He’d Like To See Change
“The things that happen here now,
that so alarm us or surprise us, have
generally happened in some form in
some other country in the not too dis-
tant past. But we’ve shut ourselves out
from that. We’ve made ourselves much
more provincial than we used to be. I
would think a thoughtful government,
rather than attacking the press as is
the case now, would incentivize young
‘How long has America really been a democ-
racy, in the sense of people being allowed to
vote? I would say, circa 1965, Civil Rights Act?
If not all of your citizens can vote you’re not
really a democracy. So were talking about half
a century, tops’
which means people’s votes don’t count
the same as other people’s votes. There
is a gerrymandered system at the level
of congressional districts, so that again
means people’s votes don’t count the
same as other people’s votes.
“And we have an absurd amount of
money in politics, which creates a situ-
ation in which someone like Mr. Trump
can say, ‘Sure I’m a billionaire, but at
least I’m your billionaire. You don’t
people to go into careers in journal-
ism. A thoughtful government would
find ways to support institutions of the
press which actually report abroad.
This may seem like a minor thing, but
really it’s not. Rather than thinking
about the world, we just stare into the
mirror 24 hours a day. And not sur-
prisingly we don’t learn anything from
that.”
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2
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2 eggs
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