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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts) Wed Jun 24, 2020, 05:03 PM Jun 2020

New book from Yale holocaust historian Timothy Snyder:

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New book from Yale holocaust historian Timothy Snyder: (Original Post) Grasswire2 Jun 2020 OP

"This is a book about an America that is healthy and free" genxlib Jun 2020 #1

I learned a lot from On Tyranny and more importantly On the Road to Unfreedom. Voltaire2 Jun 2020 #2

Absolutely Grasswire2 Jun 2020 #3

genxlib

(5,546 posts)

1. "This is a book about an America that is healthy and free"

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 05:10 PM

Jun 2020

So its fiction then...

Voltaire2

(13,231 posts)

2. I learned a lot from On Tyranny and more importantly On the Road to Unfreedom.

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 05:19 PM

Jun 2020

He is an important intellectual voice of the current crisis.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)

3. Absolutely

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 08:44 PM

Jun 2020

I pay very close attention to him.

Did you know that his wife also has a new book in print? Masha Geller. She's Ukrainian. I believe the title is "Living Under Autocracy."

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