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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a 2017 book by Timothy Snyder, a historian of 20th-century Europe. The book was published by Tim Duggan Books in hardcover and by Penguin Random House in paperback. [1] A graphic version, illustrated by Nora Krug, was released October 5, 2021. [2]
The book had articles and reviews published by The New York Times, The Economist, [5] Financial Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times. In The New York Times , Bill Gates calls the book "fascinating" and his author "such a stimulating writer that even when I disagreed, I wanted to keep reading and thinking."
Chase's 1938 book The Tyranny of Words was an early and influential popularization of Alfred Korzybski's theory of general semantics. Chase supported United States non-interventionism and was against U.S. entry in World War II, advocating this position in his 1939 book The New Western Front. [1] After the war, Chase became involved in social ...
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In various reviews of the 2020 book: the Evening Standard headline was: "Diagnosis but no cure for the ills of an unfair society", [33] in Kirkus Reviews "Sandel’s proposals for change are less convincing than his deeply considered analysis."; in the British Education Studies Association: "We must abandon the elitism of the university degree ...
The book is divided into a preface, 20 subsections, and an end poem. Each of the 20 middle sections focuses on a different value or virtue explained in a short tale. Preface – Thomas addresses a letter to his four children on the eve before a battle, fearing he will not survive it.
The book argues that there are no simple answers for promoting economic development and that the best hope is to support economic, political, and personal freedom worldwide. [1] [2] The book is similar to Easterly's earlier books on economic development, The Elusive Quest for Growth and The White Man's Burden. The book argues that in order for ...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz is a 1998 book by Timothy Snyder.It is a biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz with commentary by Snyder on a number of wider issues, including nationalism.