https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/jocolibrary/rss/search?query=%22Snyder%2C%20Timothy%22&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 04:00:24 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1516239https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1516239Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1516239036BKTwenty Lessons From the Twentieth Centuryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804190114/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn968309193https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1779937https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1779937Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1779937036GRAPHIC_NOVELTwenty Lessons From the Twentieth Centuryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984860392/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1273197705https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1769515https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1769515Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1769515036LPRINTTwenty Lessons From the Twentieth Centuryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432888831/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1242021141#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)
“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3108868https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3108868Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3108868980EBOOKTwenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centuryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804190121/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1934381https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1934381Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1934381036BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593728727/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1415748327https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1941652https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1941652Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1941652036LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217014286/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1453095665NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny
“[Snyder’s] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for the future.”—Los Angeles Times
Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for.
Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.
On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10345052https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10345052Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10345052980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593728734/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1573650https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1573650Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1573650036BKRussia, Europe, Americaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525574460/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1029484935NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.
“A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. 
Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself.  The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies.
In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us—between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood—Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3591516https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3591516Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3591516980EBOOKRussia, Europe, Americaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525574484/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1052215https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1052215Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1052215036BKEurope Between Hitler and Stalinenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780465002399/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn449858698https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1417534https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1417534Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1417534036BKThe Holocaust as History and Warningenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101903452/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn898228378NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New Republic

A “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The Washington Post, The Economist, Publishers Weekly

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think and thus all the more terrifying. 
 
By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler’s than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was—and ourselves as we are. 
 
Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

New York Times Editors’ Choice • Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize; the Mark Lynton History Prize; the Arthur Ross Book Award]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2147826https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2147826Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2147826980EBOOKThe Holocaust as History and Warningenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101903469/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C820764https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C820764Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/820764036BKThe Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archdukeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780465002375/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn191090444NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny
“[Snyder’s] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for the future.”—Los Angeles Times
Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for.
Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.
On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10477783https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10477783Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10477783980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593913703/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=But this threat to the West also presents the opportunity to better understand the pillars of our own political order. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy. By showcasing the stark choices before us—between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood—Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3469585https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3469585Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3469585980EAUDIOBOOKRussia, Europe, Americaenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525632429/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)
“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3116660https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3116660Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3116660980EAUDIOBOOKTwenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centuryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525500919/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1722391https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1722391Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1722391036BKLessons in Liberty From A Hospital Diaryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593238899/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1156415371From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.
Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.
Bloodlands won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into more than thirty languages, was named to twelve book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countries.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4197089https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4197089Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4197089980EAUDIOBOOKEurope Between Hitler and Stalinenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549116698/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1724445https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1724445Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1724445036BKA Memoir of the Gulagenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780197502143/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=on1141228352https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1554726https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1554726Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1554726036BKEyewitness to the War in Ukraineenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780822965107/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn989026483https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1154219https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1154219Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1154219036BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594203237/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn729341530