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Timothy Snyder

1969 - Present
Timothy Snyder is a historian of 20th-century Europe who holds the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. His books include Bloodlands, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015), and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), a New York Times bestseller.
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4.7/5

Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is a compact, widely read work of political nonfiction that draws on the history of twentieth-century European authoritarianism to issue actionable lessons for protecting democracy in the modern United States — a book that topped the New York Times bestseller list for paperback nonfiction in 2017 and, as of mid-2025, has sold over 1.4 million copies across more than 47 printings.

Reviewed Feb 12, 2026