Part 1: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism
May 30, 2017
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as posted by the channelIs 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. "I was trying to get out front and give people very practical daytoday things that they could do," Snyder says. "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."
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