Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale
University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of the
bestselling books Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. His work has
received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for
European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New
York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former
contributing editor at The New Republic.
Nora Krug is the author of the graphic memoir Belonging and
an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her
drawings and visual narratives have appeared in The New York Times,
The Guardian, and Le Monde diplomatique. Her short-form graphic
biography, Kamikaze, about a surviving Japanese World War II pilot,
was included in editions of Best American Comics and Best American
Nonrequired Reading. She is the recipient of fellowships from the
Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and of
medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art
Directors Club.
“Timothy Snyder is brilliant. On Tyranny is a must read, a
clear-eyed guidebook for anyone seeking to learn from history to
help us understand the present. It is a manual for how to
protect and preserve Democracy. The past teaches us that we,
as individuals, must act to reaffirm and protect the freedoms and
institutions that we collectively cherish. Listen, learn, be kind
and courageous. This stunning new edition beautifully
illustrated by Nora Krug makes the lessons jump off the page, into
our hearts, filling us with the urgent imperative: act now,
before it is too late.”—Ken Burns
“A more concise, profound, or essential book on the subject does
not exist. Snyder’s masterwork is a stunning reminder of the
myriad, insidious forms oppression takes. Now beautifully
illustrated by Nora Krug, On Tyranny is a bellwether for what we
must be awake to, and fight against.”—J.J. Abrams, filmmaker,
Star Trek and Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Vastly important, deeply affecting, powerful,
magnificent.”—Philippe Sands, author, East West Street and The
Ratline
“Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny is already an essential read, but the
book’s analysis of the mechanics of authoritarianism, fascism, and
other forms of tyranny is even more potently delivered in its
graphic edition, illustrated by Nora Krug. Krug’s playful but
powerful and evocative drawings and diagrams amplify the important
ideas in On Tyranny and serve as the sugar to help the reader
digest the medicine of the book’s cautionary look at threats to
democracy. We are often told to visualize things that are
crucial to commit to memory. In the graphic edition of On Tyranny,
Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable
lessons of the 20th century which will serve all citizens as we
shape the future.”—Shepard Fairey, artist and activist
“On Tyranny is one of the most important books of our time, and
Krug enriches Snyder's powerful, accessible text with a
transcendent humanity. This book should be read and
experienced by everyone, its lessons carved into our hearts.”—Nate
Powell, graphic novelist, March and Save It for Later
“It is impossible to overstate the urgency of Timothy Snyder’s
handbook for recognizing and resisting the normalization of
barbarism. Nora Krug illustrates with soulful beauty
and the moral clarity of an artist who never flinches. The
combination is as hopeful as it is devastating. Krug’s
illustrated edition of On Tyranny is more than an instant classic.
It is an act of resistance—and a gift of love.”—Joshua Oppenheimer,
filmmaker, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
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