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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and...

Brought to you by Penguin. These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the...

Chi sono i tiranni? Sono capi di Stato che rapiscono registi di fama per realizzare i propri film, che smerciano droga per mantenere i loro eccessi e che si presentano in pubblico vestiti da Batman. Nel mondo il 70% della popolazione vive in un regime e anche la democrazia più potente del mondo sta cercando di finire in questo podcast. Per accendere un faro sul tema, Jake La Furia e Antonio hanno indossato le divise dei Bastardi senza gloria per andare a caccia dei tiranni di oggi per spiegarvi come nascono e, soprattutto, come distinguerli in anticipo. Tyranny è una guida satirica che ti ...

Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama administration … and what we can do to stop this leftist gang from seizing...

In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Timothy Snyder combines the original On Tyranny (2017)—20 lessons on how history can instruct our response to the rise of tyranny around the world today—with 20 new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia's war on Ukraine. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy around the world. 

The nation is in flux. What has been, is no more. The changes made over a century ago are now being made manifest. Eyes are being opened and people are being to understand.Are we too far gone to change? Has Wilson's and Roosevelt's damage become irreparable? We are seeing the final lunge for the goal-line being made by the Marxist Democrats. Everything is in place regardless of what Trump tried to do. Tyranny rules and laws are abandoned, and the Constitution is ignored.Yeah, this tyranny in its rawest form.We ignore it.We will suffer...

'Engrossing . . . has the vice-like grip of a thriller' - The Telegraph 'Fascinating, timely and sharp' - Simon Sebag Montefiore In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered...

Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern-day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution.

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged...

Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension...

New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America. There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written...

Brought to you by Penguin. A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert...

In this podcast we bring you the unfiltered history of the regimes that made up the Axis Powers of the Second World War from the Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and their complicated and often complicit allies including Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland and many more, while also taking the time to investigate other complicated regimes such as Franoist Spain, the USSR and a variety of other dictatorships throughout the 20th Century.