One of the more visited sites on the blog (and yes, I do keep track) is the October 2020 posting. "Tyranny, Voting and Making Love for the Last Time". It is a brief review of Timothy Snyder's short pamphlet of a book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century, (2017) and it includes an excerpt from the book. I sell them regularly at my Destination: Books pop-up booth.
(Snyder has a new book out On Freedom (2024) that one reviewer described as "a longer antithetical companion to the earlier book.)
I've read another one of Snyder's books Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010/revised 2020). This formidable book was riveting, but depressingly awful because of its graphic descriptions of the 14 million people who perished at the hands of Hitler and Stalin in 1930s and 40s—especially in Ukraine. I did a write up entitled "My Random Bloodlands Notes" which I posted in the deep recesses of this blog—part of my personal archive.
Just a reminder to vote if you haven't already and remember the words of Astra Taylor's who said it best in her book of the same name—Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss It When It's Gone. For a lengthy interview with Taylor see An Imperfect Union, in Sun Magazine's November 2019 issue.
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