JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with award-winning author and Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder, whose new book draws on his decades of experience writing about war and genocide in European history in order to find lessons that can help the United States avoid descending into fascist authoritarianism. “What stood behind all of that was a lifetime of working on the worst chapters of European history, a sense of how things can go very wrong.” “I was trying to get out front and give people very practical day-to-day things that they could do,” Snyder says. Is the United States sliding toward tyranny? That is the question posed by Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder in his new book that draws on his decades of experience writing about war and genocide in European history in order to find 20 key lessons that can help the United States avoid descending into authoritarianism. The following interview comes from Democracy Now! (May 30, 2017).įor Dan's review of Snyder's book On Tyranny, see here:
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